FINALLY: The great list of “Andy-isms”
I’ve been told I have a lot of sayings. My girlfriend calls them ‘Andy’isms.’ So here’s the start of a running list I’ll periodically update:
Words to live by
If you don’t believe in yourself, nobody else will
You can’t be honest with others if you’re not with yourself
If you can’t take care of yourself, you can’t take care of others
Most people don’t want to hear about how painful the pregnancy and the delivery were, they just want to see a cute baby
Do what’s most important first
Be the change you wish to see in the world (I stole that one but I strongly believe in living by it)
You are who you are when no one else is looking
Do the work
Lead from the front
Don’t fear success
You can’t control what happens to you but you can control what you do about it
Past performance is no guarantee of future results but they’re usually pretty well correlated
You will get out of anything what you put into it
Everything happens for a reason
Find your truth
The same thing 4 ways
You get what you pay for
You sleep in the bed that you make for yourself
You reap what you sow
You are what your record says you are
In times of trouble…I guess this happens to me a lot…
It’s one thing to serve me a shit sandwich, it’s another to tell me it tastes good
I’m not saying this is what’s happening, it’s what the data says
When you’re in a hole, the first thing you need to do is stop digging
The definition of insanity is doing the same things over and over again and expecting different results
Never make decisions out of emotion
These things have a way of working themselves out
When in doubt, go faster
If you’re in a bind, you’re only certain to fail if you try to be someone else
It’s always darkest before the end (joke)
When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. Then go find someone whose life gave them vodka and have a party
The Wayne Gretzky section
You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take
Skate where the hockey puck is going, not where it is now
When dealing with issues of others
You can lead’em to the water but you can’t make’s drink it
Sometimes people need to hug their own cactus (Courtesy of my Aunt Karen Speyer)
It’s hard to find the rationality in crazy
In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are (The Nightingale)