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Bending the Universe – Will Smith

10 Jan

The universe is not a thing that’s going to push us around… We are going to bend the universe and command – and demand – that the universe become what we want it to be.

- Will Smith

Will Smith

Will Smith

There was a re-run of Men in Black on TV today and much to the annoyance of my 5 a side football team, I decided to stay in and watch it for the umpteenth time. Can’t help it, I just love anything Will Smith related. I remember listening to his music in the early 1990′s and watching the first ever episode of the television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air and every episode after that. The first movie I ever watched in the cinema was Independence Day. He is not only an amazing entertainer but his view of life is a fresh of breath air and he has always been one of my biggest role models.

He is quite possibly the biggest movie star in the world and according to Newsweek, the most powerful actor in Hollywood. But what drives him and how does he achieve his level of greatness? He doesn’t believe in impossible! When Will started acting, he made the choice to become the biggest movie star in the world. The first thing he did was watch the 10 top-grossing movies of all time and looked for patterns among them. Will has said, “I study the patterns of the universe.”

In the video below, Will Smith explains how to bend the Universe -

 

Will Smith’s Pearls of Wisdom about Life

Over the years in countless interviews, Will has shared with us a lot of inspiring and motivational quotes. Thought I had share some of my favourite ones below -

I LOVE LIVING. I think that’s infectious.

Greatness truly exists in all of us.

Talent you have naturally. Skill is only developed by hours and hours and hours of beating on your craft.

I’ve never really viewed myself as particularly talented, where I excel is ridiculous,sickening work ethic. While the other guy is sleeping, I’m working. While the other guy is eating, I’m working.

If you don’t dedicate yourself to becoming better every single day, you will never be able to communicate with people the way that you want.

The only thing that I see that is distinctly different about me is that I’m not afraid to DIE on a treadmill. You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, but if we get on a treadmill together, there are two things:
1- You’re getting off first
OR
2- I’m gonna DIE
It’s really that simple

You don’t try to build a wall. You don’t set out and say ‘I’m gonna build the biggest, baddest, greatest wall that has ever been built’. You say ‘I’m going to lay this brick as perfectly as a brick can be laid’. You do this every single day, and soon you have a wall.

If you are not making someone else’s life better, then you are wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other people’s lives better.

The first step before anyone else in the world believes it is that YOU have to believe it.

Day 22 – Slowing down with Gandhi

22 Jan

Aaliyah left a comment on my blog post Changing faces where she mentioned about how rarely people nowadays take time to think and feel.

Life, expecially in London, is pretty much a rat race. We all just seem like mechanical cogs in the big corporate machine. We do the same thing day in day out without taking a break, to appreciate the little things in life that we take for granted. Everyday seems a flash, days fly by faster than it registers in my brain. Feels like I just welcomed in the new year, yet it is almost already the end of January. When you are drunk, minutes feels like seconds, I must be permanently intoxicated for days to feel like hours :-|

But keeping this blog and my self imposed requirement to chronicle my life for Project 365 has helped me to slow down and look at things differently. The need to find something interesting to blog about has made me analyze things that I normally wouldn’t, for example, today as I stood for my tube, I saw a flurry of mice running along the live rails below me yet they were not electrocuted. How was that possible I asked myself and began to recall GCSE physics where I learnt that current looks for a path to flow to earth. It could be through a conductive medium such as water, a piece of metal, or even a living animal. If the rat had touched the ground at the same time as being on the live rail, he would have been fried.  At the moment the current flows into the rat and then back to the rail, so Mickey and his friends live to die another day.

It looks like Gandhi himself must have kept a blog, ofcourse his life was a tad bit more interesting than mine, but hey atleast we came to the same conclusion.

There is more to life than increasing it's speed. - Gandhi

Gandhi shares his wisdom.

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