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The Resource Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey

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Summary
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges, how to get relative with the inevitable, you can enjoy a state of success I call "catching greenlights." So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It's a love letter. To life. It's also a guide to catching more greenlights and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Edition
First edition.
Extent
289 pages
Contents
  • Outlaw logic
  • Finding your frequency
  • Dirt reads and autobahns
  • The art of running downhill
  • Turn the page
  • The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow
  • Be brave, take the hill
  • Live your legacy now
Isbn
9781472283535
Instance
Label
Greenlights
Title
Greenlights
Statement of responsibility
Matthew McConaughey
Title variation
Green lights
Creator
Author
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life's challenges, how to get relative with the inevitable, you can enjoy a state of success I call "catching greenlights." So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. Hopefully, it's medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot's license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It's a love letter. To life. It's also a guide to catching more greenlights and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too. Good luck
Biography type
autobiography
Cataloging source
DLC
http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
1969-
http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
McConaughey, Matthew
Dewey number
B
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • portraits
  • facsimiles
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • McConaughey, Matthew
  • McConaughey, Matthew
  • Motion picture actors and actresses
  • Conduct of life
Target audience
adult
Label
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
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Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Content type code
  • sti
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Outlaw logic -- Finding your frequency -- Dirt reads and autobahns -- The art of running downhill -- Turn the page -- The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow -- Be brave, take the hill -- Live your legacy now
Control code
000067084031
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
289 pages
Isbn
9781472283535
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2020019330
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits, facsimile
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1192969733
Label
Greenlights, Matthew McConaughey
Publication
Copyright
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
  • still image
  • text
Content type code
  • sti
  • txt
Content type MARC source
  • rdacontent
  • rdacontent
Contents
Outlaw logic -- Finding your frequency -- Dirt reads and autobahns -- The art of running downhill -- Turn the page -- The arrow doesn't seek the target, the target draws the arrow -- Be brave, take the hill -- Live your legacy now
Control code
000067084031
Dimensions
24 cm.
Edition
First edition.
Extent
289 pages
Isbn
9781472283535
Isbn Type
(paperback)
Lccn
2020019330
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other physical details
illustrations, portraits, facsimile
Specific material designation
regular print
System control number
(OCoLC)1192969733

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