Things Kendrick Says
Working with Kendrick is interesting at times. He never uses a deck and we never really know what he is going to say next. Here are some of the zingers we have heard from him over time. You are now warned, especially if you plan on working here. Published WITHOUT his permission.
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 is a silent titan. I could never hope for a better foundation. The child he held up in his hands still remembers what true strength is.
- Kendrick Wakeman
I wish they wouldn't spell "anxiety" with an "x".
- Kendrick Wakeman
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 and rejoice.
- 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
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:
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100% of people say they are honest.
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90% think they are honest.
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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 culture or environment. It's almost never about money.
- Kendrick Wakeman
Just because a sponge can't stop the tide doesn't mean it shouldn't try.
- 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 i 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.
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- Kendrick Wakeman
If you take the risk and put in the work, you will gain the glory, be it in victory or defeat.
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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, The Great Gatsby
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
Never be afraid to speak truth to power. Sometimes be afraid to speak truth to hysteria.
- Unknown
People have been trained to think that fancy words = intelligence.
The reality is that 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, they blow the whistle.
-Coach Francis McGrath
When a man lies, he kills a little part of himself.
- 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.
- Kendrick Wakeman
Sunsets are for amatuers. Real living is in the sunrise - the light that arises from the darkness and rallies the soul.
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 a man 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
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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- Kendrick Wakeman
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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- Anon
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
