Things Kendrick Says

Nobody wants to hear a lecture.

Pretend you are having a casual conversation over lunch with an old friend and they ordered an appetizer and you didn't. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Seeds don't get to choose where they land. 
 
But they can choose to grow. 


- Kendrick Wakeman

Good salespeople are not salespeople at all, just people who want you to succeed. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Its not about the hand life deals you. Its about you. Don't sell yourself short. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Fear of the dark never stops the dark. It only stops you. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Never miss a sunrise. I'm serious. Don't. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Hate is destructive, but self-pity is twice as destructive and even more senseless. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

A person who tries to carry a cat home by the tail learns a lesson that can be learned in no other way. 

- Chinese Proverb



 

Life is an hourglass glued to the table.

- Anna Nalick 

My Dad was a silent titan. I could never hope for a better foundation. The child he once held aloft in his hands still remembers what true strength is. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Just because a sponge can't stop the tide doesn't mean it shouldn't try if it thinks it's important enough.

- Kendrick Wakeman

Mental health and physical health: there cannot be one without the other. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' noses.

- Emily Richmond (George Carlin)

We all have two lives, and the second Life starts when we realize we only have one.
 
- Confucius 

What’s the matter lads? Did you think you would live forever?
 
- Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, Belleau Wood, 1918 (light editing for PG rating)

Guiding a child through their teenage years is a losing battle, but you can still put up the most valiant rear-guard action you can. 
 
- Kendrick Wakeman

Good leaders create followers. Great leaders create leaders.
 
- Baron Jonathan Sacks/Rabbi Sacks 

Dont cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
 
- Dr. Seuss 

I sometimes don't live in the moment, as I should, but in the next moment. It makes problems. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

Life is short, so tell people that you love them.
 
But yell it at them in German because it is also scary and confusing. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

Every child is an artist. The problem is remaining an artist once we grow up. 
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- Pablo Picasso 

Ancient Babylonians used a numerical system based on 60 instead of 10 and they still built one of the wonders of the ancient world. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

If you take the risk and put in the work, you will gain the glory, even if you lose. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. 
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald 

What doesn't kill you...shows you that you are strong in ways you never knew about. 
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- Unknown

Do not ally yourself with the one with the loudest mouth. He often has the fastest feet. 
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- Unknown

Strength is not about how much you can handle before you break. It's about how much you can handle after you break. 
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- Unknown

The second best answer is a quick "no". 
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- Kendrick's Dad

Do not lead with a demo! Tell me about what problem you are fixing and how you are going to do it. If you don't get me leaning forward by then, I could care less about the UI/UX.
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-Kendrick Wakeman

All good things must come to an end to give us room for new good things.

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-Kendrick Wakeman

There is something exciting about being kicked in the gutter and flat on your back: the only place you can go is up. 

- Unknown

All emotion comes from a divergence between the way you think things should be and the way things are. 

- Unknown

Confuse and bamboozle and you might make a small sale. Express yourself with integrity and you might earn a relationship of mutual respect. 

- Unknown

Marry the right person and you can take anything life throws at you. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Courage is the decision that something is more important than fear. 

- Unknown

I like to stay away from activities where the entire pleasure of the thing is that you are alive afterwards. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

My 195 rule:  
 

• 100% of people say they are honest.

• 90% think they are honest. 

• But, only about 5% are actually honest. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

There are 10 types of people in this world: those who know binary and those who don't. 

- Unknown

It's called life. Let's do this. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Most people quit their job because they don't like the environment. It's almost never about money. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

A true manager does not manage people. A true manager manages people up. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

A person who is nice to you but not nice the waiter is not a nice person. Trust me on this.
 
- Charles Osgood 

In every job that must be done there is an element of fun. You find the fun and *snap* the job's a game. 

- Mary Poppins

You will be amazed at your life once you stop feeling sorry for yourself. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

I look for three things when hiring someone: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And you better be sure on the first or the other two will kill you.
 
- Warren Buffet 

In three words I can still up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
 
- Robert Frost 

It's not hard to get up early. The hard part is going to bed early. 
 
- Kendrick Wakeman

Actions prove who someone is. Words only prove who they pretend to be.
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- Unknown 

People join because of great vision. 
 
People leave because of poor leadership. 
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- Unknown

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. 
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- Johann von Goethe 

You're never gonna stop the rain by complaining. 
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- Burt Bacharach & Hal David 

To learn the piano, you need to know which notes to play.
 
To be truly great, you must know why you are playing them. 
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- Unknown

Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality. 
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– The Cheshire Cat 

Never burn a bridge...unless you are using it to escape from a toxic waste dump, then throw gasoline. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

In the end, what really matters is not what you bought but what you built. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

Without the fear, there would be no opportunity. 
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- Unknown 

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used them.
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- Unknown

Innovation is strange. They put a man on the moon before they put wheels on luggage.
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- Unknown

If you want to tell if someone cares about how they are dressed, look to see if their shoes are shined.
-Kendrick's Dad
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Then what? I don't even care about how I am dressed.
-Young Kendrick

You get to do what you want with your own memories, so let go of your bad ones and cuddle your good ones.

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-Kendrick Wakeman

Never be afraid to speak truth to power. Sometimes be afraid to speak truth to hysteria. 

- Unknown

People with bad ideas use fancy words like a squid uses ink. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Instead of doing annual reviews, try doing an annual preview:

Where do you want to go in the next 12 months and what can I do to help?  

- Kendrick Wakeman

No matter what happens, never stop moving your legs. Once your legs stop moving, the ref blows the whistle. 
 
-Coach Francis McGrath 

When people lie, they kill a little part of themseves. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

I don't really watch sports since I find it difficult to get jazzed-up about something I have no influence over.

But, this makes going to the barber a very awkward experience here in Boston. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Sunsets are for amatuers.  Real living is in the sunrise.

Never miss a sunrise. See it each time as if the first time - for it is our doom that we forget to live. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

If you get my sense of humor we are going to have a great time and be very successful.

Don't get your hopes up though. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Any mouse can pick a fight. It takes real courage to stand one down. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

It's hard to make a good deal with a bad person or a bad deal with a good person. 

- Warren Buffet

Life is 100% about what happens next. If you want to focus on what has happened in the past then go stick your head in the toilet. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Once you admit that you are profoundly ignorant, the real horizon suddenly opens before you. 

- Unknown

Sometimes taking the moral road is a lot slower, but you will enjoy the view a lot more. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

To me, my daughter was never "a baby," just a really good friend who happened to have an overdeveloped sense of entitlement in her early years. 

- Kendrick Wakeman

Avoid people who don't laugh with their heart. 
 
- Kendrick Wakeman 

Do you know what a foreign accent is? It's a sign of bravery.
 
- Amy Chua 

O Fortuna, velut luna statu variabilis. 
 
- Carl Orff 

I can respect a bad decision, but I can't respect a liar. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

When nothing is certain, anything is possible. 
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- Mandy Hale 

False friends are worse than bitter enemies. 
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- Scottish Proverb 

I hear what you say but I see how you act. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same.  
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- Lord Byron 

Integrity is doing the right thing even when it's not convenient. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

Great people are hard on themselves.
 
Small people are hard on others. 
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- Confucius 

Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. 
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- David Bowie 

Do not waste life worrying about death. 
 
- Spock

If you are going to build a tree, don't start with the leaves. 
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- Kendrick Wakeman

People do not decide their futures. They decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.
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-FM Alexander

You kids have nothing on me, I drive an organic fuel vehicle and have for over 40 years.
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-Kendrick Wakeman
(Gasoline is an organic fuel)

True innovation is like rhinoplasty: painful at first, then a period of everything being held together with bandages, but a vast improvement in the end.

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-Kendrick Wakeman