Bob Buford Quotes
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If learning prepares you to deal positively and productively with change, then it is more important now than ever before.
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The existential writer Albert Camus discovered this truth: “In the midst of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.”
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Odds are, you’ll live a whole adult lifetime that wasn’t available to your parents and grandparents. Their life expectancy at birth was fifty years. We have two lifetimes now. Life I is what occurs before halftime, and Life II comes afterward.
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The Human tendency, largely driven by ego, is to believe we can do it all....It maybe humbling to admit there are only a few things you do really well...you will free yourself to focus on those things which will lead to greater personal success and significance.
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Halftime is not about beating yourself up for what you did not do, but for coming to terms with your failures and recognizing that you live under grace.
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As you take stock, ask yourself these similar questions: What is my passion? How am I wired? Where do I belong? What do I believe? What will I do about what I believe? Or, as Peter Drucker advised people who were looking for their life’s task: What are my values, my aspirations, my directions, and what do I have to do, to learn, to change, in order to make myself capable of living up to my demands on myself and my expectations of life?
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It is a book that challenges the reader to action, and in taking that action, to greater service to themselves, their families, their communities, and their Maker.
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God uses all kinds of people to get us the help we need if we will just be aware and sensitive.
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My fruit grows on other people’s trees.
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Finally, this book can — and should — be read as a story of growth from knowledge into wisdom, of intellectual and spiritual education.
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If your life were absolutely perfect, how would it look to you?
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If the first half was a quest for success, the second half is a journey to significance.
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It is not unnatural nor should it overly concern you that you feel the need for a change. The mistake most people make when they begin to feel this way is to ignore the voice that is telling them to stop and listen.
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What’s the one thing — not two things, not three, not four, but the one big thing — in the box?
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Don't just dream big; follow through.
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This book will show you how to make the rest of your life the best of your life. I want every man in my congregation to read this inspiring story! Rick Warren, pastor, Saddleback Community Church.
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I was given far more opportunity for growth, personal development, and financial rewards than most Americans.