Uhl Quotes

Sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.

We Americans are too often like children, steeped in moral tales that lack complexity and nuanced meaning. (from the foreword in The War I survived Was Vietnam by Michael Uhl)

Word For The Day KERFUFFLE (kuhr FUF uhl) n. Disorder; uproar; confusion

Oh the Beat generation was just a phrase I used in the 1951 written manuscript of On the Road to describe guys like Moriarty who run around the country in cars looking for odd jobs, girlfriends, kicks. It was thereafter picked up by West Coast Leftist groups and turned into a meaning like “Beat mutiny” and “Beat insurrection” and all that nonsense; they just wanted some youth movement to grab on to for their own political and social purposes. I had nothing to do with any of that. I was a football player, a scholarship college student, a merchant seaman, a railroad brakeman on road freights, a script synopsizer, a secretary … And Moriarty-Cassady was an actual cowboy on Dave Uhl’s ranch in New Raymer, Colorado … What kind of beatnik is that?”[22]

All of you shows and is multiplied in everything you do, so know yourself and take care of yourself first, so you can live on purpose and contribute from a place of abundance and overflow.

Your blood tells many stories. Diet dramatically affects how you look and feel and can make you clearer, happier and more energetic in your approach to living a long and fulfilling life.

The secrets to staying young: Love life. Love what you do. Love each other. Live in the present. Enjoy food and life using only the best.

To have a quick and clear mind, you must be mindful of what you put in your body. Always be present. Become aware of what serves you and what doesn’t.

I love showing people how to unlock and unleash the genius that everybody has inside them.

The quality of relationships determines success. Good relationships are built on positive qualities that are the direct result of the thoughts we nurture and the foods we eat.

It is heartening to realize that we are not nearly so stuck as it might at first appear. Cultures do change. Things that now seem normal—such as hyper-individualism and economism—can suddenly come to be seen as untenable and brought to an end with surprising quickness. These seismic changes occur as people free themselves from limiting beliefs and in the process cultivate a new worldview.

mutual trust, respect and obligation between both parties involved in the relationship. Such high degrees of mutuality in these areas result in a situation where leaders provide support well beyond basic contract assistance. Followers then respond with behaviours that exceed those normally expected through typical employment contract requests (Uhl-Bien, Graen, & Scandura, 2000; Wilson,

  Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg’uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting.