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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve harvey Man got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Real glad about it too. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I hope that God always keeps me in the frame
of mind to try to be sharing and try to
be motivational and ubly even when it's not felt or
wanted by some people.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I have people around me.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who seem to not benefit at off or anything, and
I can sit with them and talk to them or
take meetings with them to try to encourage them, and
for whatever reason, you know, they want to just keep
going the way they're going. When you run into people
like that, you have to pray for them. You have
to just hope that one day that they release the
chains on their mind and open up your mind to
(00:58):
a new way of thinking. A couple of things I
wanted to go over with I want you to all
today in terms of motivation. I want you to be
aware of statements or old sayings that have been created
that you hear over the course of time, and you
may be applying them to your life. And I want
(01:19):
you to be careful of some of them, because some
of these old sayings man are not designed for people
who are dreamers, are not designed for people who have
any aspirations of being extraordinary. These are not designs or
sayings that people who want to be extremely successful at
(01:42):
anything or have high aspirations to put these sayings into
your life. Let me give you an example. Statistics say
that's it. That's the one I want you to be
careful about. Statistics say, be very careful of stats. When
(02:06):
a person says, you know, statistics say one out of
every what see, listen to me. These are things that
sound like they're good, sound solid advice, but they're setting
you up for failure. And you can't adhere yourself to
a lot of these sayings that's been passed down from generations.
(02:27):
And it's not scripture. It ain't in a scripture nowhere
that statistics say. It's just some people and a lot
of people who have lost have come up with these
sayings to justify why they keep losing or why they lost.
When I was Earth got started in the business, there
(02:49):
were more stand ups around now than it is today.
Because the comedy boom in eighty four eighty five was
it was scaining up a lot of momentums, comedy clubs,
comedy nights everywhere. The statistic that a guy told me.
I told him I wanted to be on the Johnny
(03:10):
Carson Show, the Tonight Show. The guy said, one out
of every two thousand comedians ever make it to the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Now, when he told us that, some of the comedians
in the room went, well, wow, man, that's rough, because
a guy had also said that there was approximately six
thousand comedians in the country at that time. I don't
know if it was true. I'm just telling you a
guy was out there spewing numbers. I have no idea
(03:47):
how many it was, but he said, one in every
two thousand will make it to the Tonight Show.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And he let the air out of everybody in the
room but me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So every night before I went on stage, used to
do this right here, Bata bat up.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That was the Tonight theme song.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was young, opening act nowhere near Hollywood, didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I was in Cleveland telling jokes at one night.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But that was my thing because I was bent and
determined that if it's one in two thousand, okay, why
don't I just be the one?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Be careful when.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
People say statistics say, because they are set up to
fulfailure if you're gonna adhere to him. See that won
in so many it wanted. So many people win the lottery.
But if you don't play the lottery, you ain't gonna
be the one to hit. Not when the dude hit
you go while he was lucky, but he played. Here's
another one. Maybe it's not meant to be. Let's go
(04:50):
one step further. I guess it wasn't the Lord's will.
Don't you dare blame God for something you may have
not done yourself because you didn't get the proper education,
because you didn't do the things you were supposed to do,
because you didn't stay to the task, because you quit,
(05:11):
turned around and went the other way. Now, maybe it's
not it wasn't the Lord's will. These are all statements
that sound like sound advice, but they ain't.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
All the time, got nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Stop letting these old fogy sayings get in your way
of what can happen in your life. Don't put all
your eggs in one basket.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who came up with this? Who came up with it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
If you don't pour all your efforts into one thing,
how are you gonna be great at that one thing.
If Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird had
not played basketball sun up to sundown. Magic Johnson didn't
go to Michigan to get an education. Larry Berry ain't
(06:03):
go to Indiana to get an education. These cats was balling.
Michael Jordan didn't go to North Carolina get an education.
They went to play ball. They went to do one thing.
Tiger Woods didn't go to Stamford to get an education.
He went to play golf. Soon as he got good enough,
he gone, These are guys that put all they eggs
(06:27):
in one basket. See what's cool with putting all your
eggs in one basket is you now can maximize your
effort and laser beam what you're doing. Your problem is
all you gotta do is make sure what is your
basket made out of. If your basket is made out
of faith, hope, hard work, and belief, then guess what,
(06:51):
that's a good basket.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm dumping all mine in it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because ever since I was a young dude, I've been
telling jokes one thing, one thing only, And when it
got ugly and I was living in a car, I
never quit telling them jokes.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I just kept believing that them jokes was gonna pay
me one day, and I'll be dog gone if it didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I ain't take no time off.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Go work at the Walmart, get me a job, go
back to Ford and big for my job back.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hey man, put all your eggs in a basket.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Just make sure that your basket is made up of faith, hope, belief,
hard work. Your basket woven by God. What you tripping for?
You're defeating yourself. Where is your faith? Where is your belief?
Where is your trust? At one point in time, you
got to bleed that God could do what he said
(07:40):
gonna do because he'dn't done it for others, he'll most
certainly do it for you. Be careful of these sayings
that's out here, that's aligned by losers and people to
justify why they are not succeeding. Don't apply this stuff
to your life. And it ain't got nothing to do
with you. You're gonna mess yourself up, all right, Okay,
you listen to the Eve Harvey Morning Show,
Come on, uh huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You are listening to the voice, Come on dig me now,
one and only Steve harvey Man got a radio show.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Real glad about it too. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
I hope that God always keeps me in the frame
of mind to try to be sharing and try to
be motivational and ubly even when it's not felt or
wanted by some people.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
I have people around me.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Who seem to not benefit at off or anything, and
I can sit with them and talk to them or
take meetings with them to try to encourage them, and
for whatever reason, you know, they want to just keep
going the way they're going. When you run into people
like that, you have to pray for them. You have
to just hope that one day that they release the
chains on their mind and open up your mind to
(00:58):
a new way of thinking. A couple of things I
wanted to go over with I want you to all
today in terms of motivation. I want you to be
aware of statements or old sayings that have been created
that you hear over the course of time, and you
may be applying them to your life. And I want
(01:19):
you to be careful of some of them, because some
of these old sayings man are not designed for people
who are dreamers, are not designed for people who have
any aspirations of being extraordinary. These are not designs or
sayings that people who want to be extremely successful at
(01:42):
anything or have high aspirations to put these sayings into
your life. Let me give you an example. Statistics say
that's it. That's the one I want you to be
careful about. Statistics say, be very careful of stats. When
(02:06):
a person says, you know, statistics say one out of
every what see, listen to me. These are things that
sound like they're good, sound solid advice, but they're setting
you up for failure. And you can't adhere yourself to
a lot of these sayings that's been passed down from generations.
(02:27):
And it's not scripture. It ain't in a scripture nowhere
that statistics say. It's just some people and a lot
of people who have lost have come up with these
sayings to justify why they keep losing or why they lost.
When I was Earth got started in the business, there
(02:49):
were more stand ups around now than it is today.
Because the comedy boom in eighty four eighty five was
it was scaining up a lot of momentums, comedy clubs,
comedy nights everywhere. The statistic that a guy told me.
I told him I wanted to be on the Johnny
(03:10):
Carson Show, the Tonight Show. The guy said, one out
of every two thousand comedians ever make it to the
Tonight Show.
Speaker 1 (03:24):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
Now, when he told us that, some of the comedians
in the room went, well, wow, man, that's rough, because
a guy had also said that there was approximately six
thousand comedians in the country at that time. I don't
know if it was true. I'm just telling you a
guy was out there spewing numbers. I have no idea
(03:47):
how many it was, but he said, one in every
two thousand will make it to the Tonight Show.
Speaker 1 (03:52):
And he let the air out of everybody in the
room but me.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
So every night before I went on stage, used to
do this right here, Bata bat up.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
That was the Tonight theme song.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
I was young, opening act nowhere near Hollywood, didn't.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
I was in Cleveland telling jokes at one night.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But that was my thing because I was bent and
determined that if it's one in two thousand, okay, why
don't I just be the one?
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Be careful when.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
People say statistics say, because they are set up to
fulfailure if you're gonna adhere to him. See that won
in so many it wanted. So many people win the lottery.
But if you don't play the lottery, you ain't gonna
be the one to hit. Not when the dude hit
you go while he was lucky, but he played. Here's
another one. Maybe it's not meant to be. Let's go
(04:50):
one step further. I guess it wasn't the Lord's will.
Don't you dare blame God for something you may have
not done yourself because you didn't get the proper education,
because you didn't do the things you were supposed to do,
because you didn't stay to the task, because you quit,
(05:11):
turned around and went the other way. Now, maybe it's
not it wasn't the Lord's will. These are all statements
that sound like sound advice, but they ain't.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
All the time, got nothing to do with you.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Stop letting these old fogy sayings get in your way
of what can happen in your life. Don't put all
your eggs in one basket.
Speaker 1 (05:38):
Who came up with this? Who came up with it?
Speaker 2 (05:42):
If you don't pour all your efforts into one thing,
how are you gonna be great at that one thing.
If Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird had
not played basketball sun up to sundown. Magic Johnson didn't
go to Michigan to get an education. Larry Berry ain't
(06:03):
go to Indiana to get an education. These cats was balling.
Michael Jordan didn't go to North Carolina get an education.
They went to play ball. They went to do one thing.
Tiger Woods didn't go to Stamford to get an education.
He went to play golf. Soon as he got good enough,
he gone, These are guys that put all they eggs
(06:27):
in one basket. See what's cool with putting all your
eggs in one basket is you now can maximize your
effort and laser beam what you're doing. Your problem is
all you gotta do is make sure what is your
basket made out of. If your basket is made out
of faith, hope, hard work, and belief, then guess what,
(06:51):
that's a good basket.
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I'm dumping all mine in it.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
Because ever since I was a young dude, I've been
telling jokes one thing, one thing only, And when it
got ugly and I was living in a car, I
never quit telling them jokes.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
Man.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I just kept believing that them jokes was gonna pay
me one day, and I'll be dog gone if it didn't.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I ain't take no time off.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Go work at the Walmart, get me a job, go
back to Ford and big for my job back.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
Hey man, put all your eggs in a basket.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Just make sure that your basket is made up of faith, hope, belief,
hard work. Your basket woven by God. What you tripping for?
You're defeating yourself. Where is your faith? Where is your belief?
Where is your trust? At one point in time, you
got to bleed that God could do what he said
(07:40):
gonna do because he'dn't done it for others, he'll most
certainly do it for you. Be careful of these sayings
that's out here, that's aligned by losers and people to
justify why they are not succeeding. Don't apply this stuff
to your life. And it ain't got nothing to do
with you. You're gonna mess yourself up, all right, Okay,
you listen to the Eve Harvey Morning Show,
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