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The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

294 | Denzel Washington: “Say Thank You in Advance for What is Already Yours.”

The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks

Sean Croxton

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Business, Self-improvement, Entrepreneurship, Education

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Denzel Washington is here to talk about what it takes to be successful, the importance of being thankful for what you have and what you want, and that it isn’t what we have that matters, but what we do with what we have that will make the difference.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Say thank you in advance for what is already yours and that is the quote of the day.

0:30.0

Welcome back to the quote of the day show. I'm your host Sean Crox and a Sean Crox and

0:37.3

dot com. We've got a famous celebrity actor on the show today. Mr. Denzel Washington and Denzel

0:44.3

is dropping truth bombs just pearls of wisdom about a success mindset. I love hearing

0:52.1

celebrities and successful people talk about the way that they think. Was it this week or last

0:57.2

week or probably last week? Maybe it's this week. But whenever it was Kendrick Lamar was on Howard

1:03.1

Stern and you know how it was talking about like like why did you think that you can like come up

1:09.5

out of this like your dad was a gang member. He worked at KFC and there's all this gang stuff going

1:13.6

on around and Kendrick was talking about how he made an image in his mind and he just held on to

1:20.0

that image and just kept moving forward just you know just all the stuff that we talk about on this

1:24.9

show is what led to his success. This is why I encourage you to read biographies read autobiographies

1:31.6

of successful people and find out how they think find out what they went through and the image is

1:38.7

so important the image that you hold in your mind is so important but what is equally important is

1:44.5

to be grateful for it before it even happens and that's a little bit about what Denzel talks about

1:51.0

in this episode. I hope you enjoyed. Here's Denzel. Fail big. That's right. Fail big.

2:01.7

Today's the beginning of the rest of your life and it can be it can be very frightening. It's a

2:06.0

new world out there. It's a mean world out there and you only live once. So do what you feel

2:12.2

passionate about. Passionate about. Take chances professionally. Don't be afraid to fail. There's an

2:20.5

old IQ test was nine dots and you had to draw five lines with a pencil within these nine dots

2:29.1

without lifting the pencil. The only way to do it was to go outside the box. So don't be afraid to

2:35.9

go outside the box. Don't be afraid to think outside the box. Don't be afraid to fail big to dream

2:46.8

big but remember dreams without goals are just dreams and they ultimately fuel disappointment.

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