Matthew McConaughey
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
having more than just an individual life, the top of the high rise.
You gotta have some resistance to have some form.
You gotta push off of something to go somewhere.
It's very hard when you're just floating and no gravity and no resistance to actually pursue a North Star.
You have no leverage.
You're floating.
Where's the art?
Probably more anarchy than art.
So resistance gives form.
Heard great artists say this.
Limitations reveal style.
Resistance.
It's like in green lights.
Life's just nothing but green lights.
If you got no yellows and reds, no reasons to pause or crises that stop you, resistance?
What are you, just go in circles till you run out of gas and get dizzy?
I don't see that, how do we evolve or devolve without resistance?
Now, picking the right resistance is an art in itself, it's challenging.
I've been clumsy with it in my life, especially when I got famous and got success.
Man, there's enough people telling me I love you and the caviar and the champagne, I was like,