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"Without health, nothing else matters."
"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou
"When you are with someone you love very much, you can talk and it is pleasant, but the reality is not in the conversation. It is in simply being together."
— Swami Chetananda
"Success is much less important than health. You can be the richest man in the world, and the most successful man alive, but if you lose your good health you will be a very unhappy man."
— Lord Beaverbrook
"When you follow your bliss, you live in a constant state of joy."
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense."
— Buddha
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
— Aristotle
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
— Pericles
"Live with passion and enthusiasm. When you live this way you will communicate your heart's energy to others and they will be drawn to your ideas, missions and dreams."
— Jon Gordon
"We don't see the world as it is. We see it as we are."
— Anais Nin
"Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success."
— Edith Sitwell
"There's more to life than increasing its speed."
— Mahatma Gandhi
"Keep a quiet heart, sit like a tortoise, walk sprightly like a pigeon, and sleep like a dog."
— Li Ching-Yuen, who lived to 256
"The greatest barrier to success is fear of failure."
"Dream it. Plan it. Do it."
"Prepare for the worst. Plan for the best."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"Make money while you are sleeping. If you aren't making money while you are sleeping, then your business owns you or you don't own it."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"The way you do anything is the way you do everything."
— Harv Eker
"In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure."
— Bill Cosby
"Help people get where they want to go and you'll end up where you want to go."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"For things to change, you must change. For things to get better, you must get better."
— Jim Rohn
"It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
— Charles Darwin
"If you don't have a conviction about what you are doing, you are never going to make it."
— Sheldon Adelson, billionaire
"You can everything you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want."
— Zig Zigler
"When preparation meets opportunity, success occurs."
"You'll be the same year after year except for the people you meet, the books you read, the films you watch, the places you travel, and the new things you do."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"Do more of what you are passionate about."
— Ken Blanchard
"If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life."
"Your persistence is your measure of faith in yourself."
"Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it."
— William Arthur Ward
"The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it."
— Henry David Thoreau
"Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value."
— Albert Einstein
"What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do."
— Bob Dylan
"Up to 90% of deaths annually are self-inflicted by an unhealthy lifestyle"
"Old age is not a time of life. It is a condition of the body. It is not time that ages the body, it is abuse that does."
— Herbert M. Shelton
"To live is to know what counts and is important in life."
— Martin Grey
"If you love Nature, you will find Beauty everywhere."
— Vincent Van Gogh
"If you have been stricken by illness – your new car, your new home, your new big bank balance – all these fade into unimportance until you have regained your vigor and zest for living."
— Peter Steincrohn, M.D.
"The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind."
— William James
"When you sell a man a book you don't just sell him paper, ink and glue, you sell him a whole new life! There is heaven and earth in a real book. The real purpose of books is to inspire the mind to do its own thinking!"
— Christopher Morely
"A good laugh, a walk and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book."
"Never hurry, never worry, live with leisure, grace and care. For it's plain that constant rushiing, never gets you anywhere."
— R. McCann
"There is no substitute for a healthy diet of organic fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. Vitamin deficiency usually occurs only after many weeks or mnths of intake below recommended levels."
— The Complete Guide to Natural Healing
"Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being of an individual's physical and mental condition. Health depends upon nutrition more than on any other single factor."
— Dr. William H Sebrell, Jr.
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
— Robert Byrne
"Nature, time, and patience are the 3 greatest physicians."
— Irish Proverb
"The great thing in life is not so much where you stand, but in what direction your are moving, either healthy or unhealthy."
"A strong healthy body makes the mind strong."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Open your mind, for the doors of wisdom are never shut."
— Irish Proverb
"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."
— P. Syrus
"What a person eats becomes his own body chemistry."
"Exercise, aerobics, walking, biking, rollerblading, swimming, jogging, tennis and most all sports benefit your body and brain power and help you think faster Studies show exercise keeps your brain younger and you retain the quick response of youth."
— Patricia Bragg
"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind."
— Thomas Jefferson
"Those who think they have no time for bodily exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness."
— Edward Stanley
"Real success is finding your life work in the work you love."
— David McCullough
"The more you are eager to learn, the faster you learn. The faster you learn, the more exciting your life will be."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become of it."
— John Ruskin
"No problem can stand to assault of sustained thinking."
— Voltaire
"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift
"At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person."
— Albert Schweitzer
"Realize that within you lies the power to change the world by what you do or do not do."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"We will either find a way, or make one"
— Hannibal
"Do not wait for leaders. Do it alone, person by person."
— Mother Teresa
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt
"Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish."
— Michelangelo
"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions."
— William James
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
— Winston Churchill
"Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom."
— Benjamin Franklin
"You get the best out of others when you get the best out of yourself."
— Harvey S. Firestone
"There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner."
— G.K. Chesterton
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
— Margaret Thatcher
"First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
— Epictetus
"If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Enjoy a Whole New World with Apple"
Inspiring piano music by Lorie Line
Welcome!
I created this video (with iMovie) to share my New York City Apple Store experience with you.
This is the main Apple Store that goes down into the basement. Open 24/7. So, take a look. Or, book a training session. Have fun!
P.S. See my Apple Tips.
Lorrin L. Lee, Hawaii. lorrin@lorrinlee.com Call: 808-949-5000. Skype: lorrinlee
Media tools: 27" iMac i7. 15" MacBook Pro. iMovie. Canon A650 camera.
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The Stanford Commencement Address by Steve Jobs

This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, its likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down - that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope its the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.
"Life was never meant to be a struggle; just a gentle progression from one point to another, much like walking through a valley on a sunny day."
— Stuart Wilde
"Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing."
— William Feather
"I feel good, therefore my life is good."
"Whatever does not destroy me makes me stronger."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"I am so happy and grateful that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources on a continuous basis."
"You simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. And you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you."
— Sarah Breathnach
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
"Health and fitness are accomplished by just eating a little less and exercising a little more, day after day and month after month."
— Brian Tracy
"Dance like nobody's watching; love like you've never been hurt. Sing like nobody's listening; live like it's heaven on earth."
— Mark Twain
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
— Robert Byrne
"You are what you eat, drink, breathe, think, say and do."
— Patricia Bragg
"Good health and good sense are two of life's greatest blessings."
— Publilius Syrus, 42 BC
"When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, strength cannot be exerted, wealth is useless and reason is powerless."
— Herophiles, 300 BC
"Perfect health is above gold; a healthy body before riches."
— Solomon
"Nutrition directly affects growth, development, reproduction, well-being and the physical and mental condition of the individual. Health depends upon nutrition more than on any other single factor."
— Dr. William H. Sebrell, Jr.
"Do what you can to improve, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt
"Everyone is our teacher. We can learn from each person on what to do and what not to do -- to live our life to the fullest."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"Nature, time and patience are the three great physicians."
— Irish Proverb
"There is no wealth greater than the health of the body."
— The Bible
"Where your focus goes, your energy flows."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world; most people exist, that is all."
— Oscar Wilde
"Our best preparation for tomorrow is the proper use of today."
"Life is a gift – open it. A joy – share it. A game – An experience – live it. A dream – make it come true."
"Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health. The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person."
— Herbert Spencer
"Remember, you are punished by your bad habits of living."
— Paul Bragg
"Open your mind for the doors of wisdom are never shut."
— Ben Franklin
"There is a great of truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats."
— Gandhi
"There are 6 Basic Fears: Sickness. Poverty. Old Age. Criticism. Loss of Love. Death."
"Before speaking, ask yourself: Is it good? Kind? Necessary?"
"Eat not for the pleasure thou mayest find therein; eat to increase thy strength, eat to preserve the life thou has received from Heaven."
— Confucius
"We can do anything we want to do if we stick to it long enough."
— Helen Keller
"Oxygen is the main nutrient of the body. When we improve our oxygen intake by exercising and deep breahting, we enhance our immune system and the body's ability to detoxify and stay healthy."
— Dr. Michael Schachter
"We can no more afford to spend major time on minor things, than we can to spend minor time on major things."
— Jim Rohn
"We grow healthier in life with pure water, healthy foods and love."
— Patricia Bragg
"Living in harmony with the universe is living totally alive, full of vitality, health, joy, inner peace, power, love, and abundance on every level."
— Shakti Gawain
"Whatever occurs in the mind, effects the body and visa versa. Mind and body cannot be considered independently. when the tow are out of sync, both the emotional and physical stress can erupt."
— Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine
"Where you focus goes – your energy flows."
"Things that matter most should never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
— Goethe
"When you can think of yesterday without regret, and of tomorrow without fear, then you are on the road to success."
— Patricia Bragg
"There is truth in the saying that man becomes what he eats."
— Gandhi
"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is the knowledge about health. The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person."
— Herbert Spencer
"Physically fit people live longer and enjoy a better quality of life."
— Tedd Mitchell, M.D.
"Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might! Be active, be energetic, be enthusiastic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one."
— Elbert Hubbard
"Refusing to ask for help when needed, is refusing someone the chance to be helpful."
"People put you down because they are unsure of themselves."
"Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get."
— Dale Carnegie
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
— Albert Einstein
"The quality of our expectations determines the quality of our action."
— Andre Godin
"Change your lifestyle to healthy living, then you will improve your life."
— Patricia Bragg
"Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
— Benjamin Franklin
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
— George Patton
"SUCCESS is a journey, not a destination. Make your life a fun-filled, joyous, and happy journey lived with passion."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"Whatever we do, we are doing it to be happy, whether we realize it or not."
— Ralphe Parlette
"We are not creatures of circumstances; we are creators of circumstances."
— Benjamin Disraeli
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
—Aristotle
"Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings."
— Samuel Johnson
"Light is the task where many share the toil."
— Homer
"The deepest craving in human nature is the craving to be appreciated."
— William James
"Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart."
— Confucius
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you."
— John Wooden
"Sometimes our light goes out, but it is blown again into flame by an other human being."
— Albert Schweitzer
"Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of others, but from doing something worthwhile."
— A wise person
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science."
— Albert Einstein
"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book."
— Friedrich Nietzsche
"Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Many wealthy people are little more than the janitors of their possessions."
— Frank Lloyd Wright
"You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving."
— Robert Louis Stevenson
"Life is full of blips and tweaks. Blips are what happens in our lives. Tweaks are the changes we make to improve our lives."
— Lorrin L. Lee
"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau