Video: Inspirational Speeches from Movies

Here's a nice video. Some of the best inspirational quotes from movies. It's a bit fast, I wish we could hear the whole speeches at time but still nice to watch.

Enjoy!!

Quote - Marilyn Manson - Going All The Way

Photo by Georges Biard

I've always said, a good quote is a good quote no matter who said it. If you can gain something from a quote or a saying take it no matter who said it. Some 3 year old kids sometimes have insightful saying. Some serial killer could say something meaningful about life. Who knows? Every persons have their own baggage of experience from which we can all learn a bit.

A lot of people would not approve all the things Marilyn Manson does. Very few parents would like their kids to follow his tracks. But nonetheless, here's a very good quote from a man who's actions are questionable.

"A lot of people as gone most of the way, so you really have to to go all the way to make something in life."

Of course "all the way" can mean different things to different persons. As with all quotes, everybody finds the meaning that fits them.

This quotes comes from the book Everybody Loves You When You're Dead from Neil Strauss. This particular section with Marilyn Manson ends with a pretty unsettling citation... "I think I have a lot more in store that people really won't expect". Coming from a person like that, I REALLY don't know what to expect!

The Dark Powers of Waiting

Since I don't have children, one of the things I've always wondered is at what point in your child's life do you tackle on sensitive matters? At what point do storks stop delivering babies to your door? That one isn't too bad, the question will come one day or another and you just answer it truthfully. But what about the more subtle things like making their own bed or folding their own cloths. It's been done for them for years and someday, somehow they must start doing it on their own. It's easy to say that you simply ask, but when? Don't forget it's years of habits, you can't just change that overnight. It wouldn't be fair for the kid or the parent.

Now, what about the other aspects of life? Waiting, gaining habits is as much powerful in any aspects of life.

Personal life, the longer you wait before starting working on your personal goals, the lazier you'll get and harder it will be to break your lazy habits to take out challenges. If you run everyday it's almost effortless to get up and run a few miles before going to work but if you never or rarely do it, it's going to be extremely demanding to do. You find excuses to delay your running, like humm writing a blog post... I'm going right after this...

In a relationship, with someone you love, a friend or family, if something bothers you the longer you wait before bringing it up the tougher it will be to tell the other. Even at one point you'll start to doubt yourself and try to convince your own self that it's non-important. I said if something bothers you but same goes for the things you like and love about someone. The longer you wait the harder it will be to get it out.

According to Cesar Milan, the Dog Whisperer, a dog can learn any trick or new behavior at any age at the same rate as when it's young. But you've surely heard dog owners say something like "I hate it when it does that but it's to old now to learn otherwise". A dog behavior is mostly based on your own day to day routine. Most of the time changing a dog behavior would mean changing your own way of doing things and that is often the problem to training an old dog new tricks. It's not the dog who is too old to learn, it's the owner who can't change its years long habits with its dog. I love watching the Dog Whisperer with Cesar Milan cause most of the time it turns out into couple therapy instead of dog therapy. It shows just how most of the time, when something is going wrong, you can track the source to yourself and adapt to change the world around you.

See the world around you as dogs who can always learn new tricks and behaviors but to teach them new tricks it is you who must change and adapt to new habits.

Video: Free Hugs

Here's a video to cheer you all. Lots of good things in life are free and are worth more than anything money can buy.

Righting skils of teh 21st centery

I was reading some posts on Facebook today and shaking my head at the difficulty people have in writing a complete sentence without errors. Why is it so hard nowadays to write correctly? As I thought about it there are many factors that which comes into play. As I said in my earlier post Are we smarter in this age of information, the fact that there is more information at our finger tips don't make us smarter. It surely makes our society smarter but as individual it doesn't.

In the case of writing, ease of information and tools like auto-correction in word processors make it so we don't have to bother writing well, we rely on technology (I wrote techonology, it got highlighted I right clicked on the word, it corrected it and I didn't even bother looking what error I made. I learned nothing out of that.) to correct us and don't try to correct ourselves.

That was factor #1 for bad writing.

Another factor, more specific to writing is that writing has become a quick way to communicate. The quicker the better. There's no time to think about grammar when you're texting (According to auto correct texting is not a word. I don't care.) your grocery list to your husband while driving at 100 km/h to make it through the traffic light before it turns red! I hope nobody really does that, it simply for the sake of extreme exampling! (To my great surprise, exampling seams to be a word according to my auto-correct!)

Writing used to be something done on occasions and it was something people took time to do well. Your mother would go through the letter you wrote to your girlfriend before mailing it (for my younger audience "mailing" is that thing, paper, that you put in an envelope also made of that thing, paper.) and correct your errors. Today, what mother would read all the Tweets of their boy and look for grammar errors?

That was factor #2. I'll leave it at that. There are countless other factors, like being kewl and hype by writing in abbreviations. Y'awl no wut I meen?

For the sake of this article I counted how many times I used the auto-correct. Total count of 7 and 3 of those were words I wasn't sure how to write in the first place that I would have looked in the dictionary anyhow.

Happy writing to all!!

Quote - Wayne Gretzky - The Great One

It's been a while since I've posted a quote. It's funny when I started my blog I planned to write some thoughts only once in a while and fill in with quotes but it turns out I have more thoughts to share than quotes. Which is a good thing. It just shows that not everything goes out to initial plans and when you adapt it all turn out great.

So this is a quote I had in my list from day one of my blog. It comes from Wayne Gretzky, the greatest hockey player of all time (arguably I guess).

"You miss a 100% of the shots you don't take"

The moral of this quote is that if you don't try anything you won't achieve anything. And that you must not wait for the perfect timing and for the shot with a 100% chance of success because it may never happen. Don't shoot too quickly or blindly all the time but make sure you take some shots. Try something. Stop waiting and go forward.

New season, new look and some highway thoughts

Spring is here. It's been here for over a week or so but it's starting to feel more and more like spring. I love Spring, the warming sun, the cool air and fresh scent. It brings some renewed energy in me.

And it also brings a new look to the blog. A greener, fresher look. With all the recent interest in my blog with that energy I'm getting from Spring I added new features to my blog to make it easier for people to follow it. Until now, I only shared my new posts on my Facebook status and there was the follow option in the right menu just there --->

Now, BlissOdyssey is on an all new level of sharenessness (Don't take your dictionary out, that's not a word I confirm it). I've added an email follow option in the right menu as well. Just submit your email and you should receive my blog updates.

That's not all, BlissOdyssey is now on Twitter. Where I'll keep you updated on new post on the blog and I'll also be sending some random thoughts and quotes here and there. Follow BlissOdyssey on Twitter.

Enough about the blog, I also have a few thoughts to share. Yesterday, as I was driving back home, yes, on the highway. It was late and I wanted to get home as soon as possible. But the hypnotic highway gave me the chance to think and reflect on different subjects.

I thought about my past and the persons who enhanced my life back then which I haven't seen since. I tried to make a list of five persons who made a positive change on my life, whom are not part of my life anymore. Could be teachers, old friends, coaches, relatives or a complete stranger perhaps. There are a lot of people who made a difference.

Peter, for all the crazy stuff we did.
Annie and Marie-Line for seeing beyond my tick shell of shyness.
Dave and Mike for starting our Ninja club.
And many many more. Some I may have forgotten about. Thank you.

Try the experience. Focus on the positive persons. There's no place for bullies and dream killers in your thoughts of the past. Make a list of five persons and you can even go further by trying to find them and thank them for the little gesture they did which you are grateful for.