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“Be honest, frank and fearless and get some grasp of the real values of life… Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.”
― W.E.B. Du Bois, Posterity: Letters of Great Americans to Their Children
“You are your own stories and therefore free to imagine and experience what it means to be human without wealth. What it feels like to be human without domination over others, without reckless arrogance, without fear of others unlike you, without rotating, rehearsing and reinventing the hatreds you learned in the sandbox. And although you don’t have complete control over the narrative (no author does, I can tell you), you could nevertheless create it.”
― Toni Morrison, Take This Advice: The Best Graduation Speeches Ever Given
“Behaviors are granular. They are reflected in how you talk, your tone, your physical presence, your volume, how you connect with people, how you listen, how you think, how you manage your emotions, how you ask questions and how you react. Behaviors have impact. Behaviors can be positive or negative. Behaviors are how you operationalize your values, beliefs and purpose.”
― Edward D. Hess, Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change
P.S. Searching for a book recommendation? Our team at The Daily Coach highly recommends The Prince of Jockeys: The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy by Pellom McDaniels III. Isaac Burns Murphy (1861–1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched. Despite his success, Murphy was pushed out of Thoroughbred racing when African American jockeys were forced off the track. Despite the obstacles he faced and before dying in obscurity, Murphy would become an important figure―not just in sports, but in the social, political, and cultural consciousness of African Americans.
