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A player whose stroke is affected by the simultaneous explosion of a bomb may play another ball from the same place. Penalty, one stroke. - Richmond Golf Club in Surrey, England (1940) via
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Because there’s nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that’s what’s most precious… You can be as good as anyone that ever lived. If you can read, you can learn everything that anyone ever learned. But […]
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Soccer is, in other words, both romantic and tragic, and the soft agony of a bad game is an inescapable part of this. You spend all your time hoping something will happen, and it never does. You get a surge of adrenaline every time the ball flies anywhere near the […]
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From Susan Cain’s The Rise of the New Groupthink: – Research strongly suggests that people are more creative when they enjoy privacy and freedom from interruption. And the most spectacularly creative people in many fields are often introverted… – Conversely, brainstorming sessions are one of the worst possible ways to stimulate […]
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From what may be my favorite piece of writing from DFW: The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able truly to care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. – David Foster […]
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We are bludgeoned with snapshots of cats playing polo. We are pinioned with pics of people we hardly know. We hardly have time for great because we are so besieged (and besotted) by the deluge of daily dreck. There is greatness in the world. Greatness and originality. In art and […]