If I couldn’t get to the national team, I wanted to get as much as I could out of soccer, and I think moving abroad was my opportunity to do that. I think that, in turn, playing with that freedom and that spirit allowed me to play a lot better. I escalated my game quickly just by being happy. Christen Press Read Quote
Then a neighbor, Mr Smith, had a dairy cow and an couple bulls. He showed me how to bluff a bull. Jim Fowler Read Quote
The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. William Morris Read Quote
The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse will carry you to the end of the book on feather wings while ‘Foster the People’ plays gently in the background. Storytelling is work. Pleasurable work, usually, but it is work. Maggie Stiefvater Read Quote
The rejection I received when I was young for being a homosexual… that’s nothing compared to the number you do on yourself when you’ve been taught that you are not a human like other people. John Grant Read Quote
I love it if comedy reflects real life because to me it’s more reassuring that we’ll get through. James L. Brooks Read Quote
I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it’s kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee. Karen Thompson Walker Read Quote
I’ve always liked horror films, but I have discovered that shooting for scenes in which you play a spirit is not easy. Madhura Naik Read Quote
Ethereum may make monetary policy decisions like, ‘Let’s do 1% inflation to support the ongoing development of the Ethereum protocol.’ A token built on Ethereum might want to do the same. Fred Ehrsam Read Quote
The argument that capitalism was dependent on slavery is, of course, not new. In 1944, Eric Williams, in ‘Capitalism and Slavery,’ made the case. Greg Grandin Read Quote
