Matthew McConaughey
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So I think I learned a lot of self-reliance from that.
I think I got a work ethic from that.
I think I got a...
Hey, focus on what's right in front of you.
Do the deed.
Take care of what's in front of you one at a time and slowly notch up your way.
And hopefully there's some ascension to that.
And it wasn't until quite years later, in some ways, decades later that I started to go, oh,
I can project.
I can dream.
Why?
Because literally the first time I got in a plane and in 30 seconds I was in a cloud, I'm like, whoa, we must be going a trillion miles an hour because we're already in that cloud that was as big as the world that I saw the edge of.
And then I grew and learned enough to go, well, that's not true.
Planes don't go that fast.
Oh, what Mr. Mayor said wasn't really true.
That cloud is not as big as the world and it's not near as far away as I thought.
But I'm glad he lied to me.
The honey holes, the reciprocity of the two of them.
I mean, I can't be present unless I got plans.
I want to have the big picture in mind, but I got to go a day at a time.