I have realized that I learn alot from reading magazines. InStyle. Time. Newsweek. People. UsWeekly. Maxim. Esquire. Glamour. Martha Stewart Living. Popular Science. Anything. Everything. So once again, I draw my next blogspot entry from ESQUIRE: Man At His Best Issue from Januanry 2003. In this issue, ESQUIRE has a special section/story: "What I've Learned," Their second annual special edition devoted to Truth, Wisdom, Loopiness, Sound Advice, Perfect Idea, and Mad Charm, taken from 11 extraordinary public figures such as Robert DeNiro, Ice Cube, Sumner Redstone, Buzz Aldrin. Below are a selection of key, important quotes that shook me. I like to be shaken. I like to be stirred. I hope all of you out there enjoy this as much as I do.

Sumner Redstone [CEO, VIACOM, 79, NYC]
Success is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastrophe.
The only thing that counts is competence. Not race. Not gender. Competence.
I got a chance to see a preview of Star Wars. After it was over, I walked across the street to a gas station and used a pay phone to buy 25,000 shares of 20th Cenutry Fox. That's not necessarily vision. I was a movie exhibitor, and I thought I could tell when a movie was going to take off. You can't always.

Gerald Ford [Former President, 89, Calif.]
For supreme happiness, a man has to reach one of his grand goals.
I didn't organize my life or plan it. It unfolded.

Ice Cube [Rapper, actor, writer, 33, LA]
First time I laid eyes on my wife, what went thru my mind was: That could be my woman. Fox Hills Mall, LA, 1989, Aug. 5th. I was an unknown then. Am I happy I met her before I became known? Hell, yeah. I know a lot of fmaous dudes who are bachelors, and they're miserable. The parties get old. They don't know who to trust. They think they've got somebody, and after a few months the real person comes out. It's just a mess. To be with somebody who supports me 100%, is good to my kids, keeps herself up, keeps the house up-- she's the perfect mate. And she can handle things when I'm out of town, never alls apart. She's tough. All those qualities...man, I'm lucky.

Chuck Barris [Game-show host, 73, NYC]
To me, dinner with four or five or six friends is living like a bunny rabbit. I tell ya, it's the best.

Self-reflection is what occurs when I read interviews, quotes, etc. self-reflection is what keeps me real. Keeps me grounded. Keeps me intune with my surroundings. Keeps me intrigued with life, people. Keeps me being me. So I ask, are you self-reflection as much as you should????