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got to turn the mouth turn. You probably got to
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come come out.
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You think that, Uh huh, I sure will. Good marning
everybody you are listening to the voice come on, dig
me now want and only Steve harvey Man got a
radio show. Real glad about it too. You know. I
hope that God always uh keeps me in the frame
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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. I have people around me who
seem to not benefit at all or anything, and I
can sit with them and talk to them or take
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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 a new
way of thinking. A couple of things I wanted to
go over with that want you lord today in terms
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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 you to be
careful of some of them because some of these old sayings, man,
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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 anything or have high aspirations
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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 a person says, you know, statistics,
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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, and it's not scripture, it ain't
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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 were more stand ups around
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now than it is today because the comedy boom in
eighty four eighty five was it was gaining a lot
of momentums, comedy club, comedy nights everywhere. The statistic that
a guy told me I told him I wanted to
be on the Johnny Carson Show, the Tonight Show. The
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guy said, one out of every two thousand comedians ever
make it to the Tonight Show. Okay, 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
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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 how many it was, but he said one
in every two thousand will make it to the Tonight Show.
And he let the air out of everybody in the
room but me. So every night before I went on stage.
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I used to do this right here, Bye bad. That
was the tonight theme song. I was young opening act
nowhere near Hollywood, didn't I was in Cleveland telling jokes
at one night. But that was my thing because I
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was bent and determined that if it's one in two thousand, okay,
why don't I just be the one? Be careful when
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
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you go while he was lucky, but he played. Here's
another one. Maybe it's not meant to be. Let's go
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,
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because you didn't do the things you were supposed to do,
because you didn't stay to the task, because you quit
turned around and with 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 all the time,
got nothing to do with you. Stop letting these old
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fogy sayings get in your way of what can happen
in your life. Don't put all your eggs in one basket?
Who came up with this? Who came up with it?
If you don't pour all your efforts into one thing,
how are you gonna be great at that one thing?
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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
go to Indiana to get an education. These cats was balling.
Michael Jordan didn't go to North Carolina get an education.
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They went to play ball. They went to do one thing.
Tiger Woods didn't go to Stafford 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
in one basket. See what's cool with putting all your
eggs in one basket is you now can maximize your
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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,
that's a good basket. I'm dumping all mine in it.
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Because ever since I was a young dude, I've been
telling jokes, one thing, one thing only. Even when it
got ugly and I was living in I never quit
telling them jokes.
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Man.
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I just kept believing that them jokes was gonna pay
me one day, and I'll be dog gone if it didn't.
I ain't take no time off. Go work at the Walmart,
get me a job, go back to Ford and big
for my job back. Hey, man, put all your eggs
in a basket. Just make sure that your basket is
made up of faith, hope, belief, hard work. Your basket
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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 gonna do
because he'dn 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
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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're listening Morning Shout