Excellent Advice for Living Quotes

“Trust is earned in drops and lost in buckets. Unwavering honesty will help seal in trust.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Don’t treat people as bad as they are. Treat them as good as you are.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“It’s possible that a not-so-smart person who can communicate well can do much better than a super-smart person who can’t communicate well.That is good news because it is much easier to improve your communication skills than your intelligence.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Instead of asking your child what they learned today, ask them who they helped today.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Don’t be the best. Be the only.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Anger is not the proper response to anger. When you see someone angry
you are seeing their pain. Compassion
is the proper response to anger.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Habit is far more dependable
than inspiration. Make progress by making habits. Don’t focus on getting into shape. Focus on becoming the kind of person
who never misses a workout.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“The more you are interested in others
the more interesting they’ll find you. To be interesting, be interested.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Learn how to learn
from those you disagree with
or even offend you. See if you can find
the truth in what they believe.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Separate the processes of creating
from improving. You can’t write and edit
or sculpt and polish
or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind must be
unleashed from judgment.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“You can reduce the annoyance of someone’s stupid belief by increasing your understanding of why they believe it.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Listening well is a superpower. While listening to someone you love
keep asking them
“Is there more?”
until there is no more.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“You can’t reason
someone out of a notion
that they didn’t reason themselves into.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Your ideal partner is not someone you never disagree with but someone you are glad to disagree with.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“The purpose of listening is not to reply, but to hear what is not being said.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Pros make as many mistakes as amateurs; they’ve just learned how to gracefully recover from their mistakes.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Before you are old
attend as many funerals as you can bear
and listen. Nobody talks
about the departed’s achievements. The only thing people will remember
is what kind of person you were
while you were achieving.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“See that old person taking forever in line? That is the future you. Have patience.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Re-visioning the ordinary is what art, literature, and comedy do.You can elevate mundane details into magical wonders simply by noticing them.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Right now no matter your age these are your golden years. The good stuff will yield golden memories and the bad stuff will yield golden lessons.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“A proper apology consists of conveying the 3 Rs:
regret (genuine empathy with the other)responsibility (not blaming someone else)and remedy (your willingness to fix it).”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“The end is almost always the beginning of something better.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Looking ahead, focus on direction rather than destinations.Maintain the right direction and you’ll arrive at where you want to go.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“If you are the smartest person
in the room, you are in the wrong room. Hang out with, and learn from
people smarter than yourself. Even better, find smart people
who will disagree with you.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“If you want something to get done
ask a busy person to do it.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“When speaking to an audience
pause frequently. Pause before you say
something in a new way
pause after you have said something
you believe is important
and pause as a relief
to let listeners absorb details.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Don’t ever work for someone
you don’t want to become.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Every person you meet
knows an amazing lot about something
you know virtually nothing about. It won’t be obvious
and your job is to discover what it is.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

“Each time you connect to people
bring them a blessing;
then they’ll be happy to see you
when you bring them a problem.”
― Kevin Kelly, Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier