One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of school, is this: look around and figure out who you want to be on your team. Figure out the people around you that you want to work with for the rest of your life. Figure out the people who are smart & awesome, who share your values, who get things done — and maybe most important, who you like to be with and who you want to help win. And treat them right, always. Look for ways to help, to work together, to learn. Because in 20 years you’ll all be in amazing places doing amazing things.
—John Lilly (via parislemon)
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Home is ‘the place in which one’s domestic affections are centered.’ I’m thankful the Oxford Dictionary doesn’t specify latitude/longitude. The more I move around and more fascinating people/experiences I encounter, the more I realize I’m perfectly content with a ‘mobile’ Home.
To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.
—ee Cummings
Darren Clarke via Twitter. Can’t imagine the feeling.
I’ve watched too many guys get old, and think they had a fastball, and didn’t have a fastball. I’ve just watched too many people get to the point where they have nothing new to say and so they try to recreate their old moves. And I just don’t want to do it. I’ve told [Bill] Simmons, you can put my name on this Grantland thing, and I’ll be happy to write you e-mails. But I’m not going out there again with my pants off. I’m not doing that. I’m too old for that. There’s a new style of writing now. It’s just different than anything I ever wrote. They write with such enormous confidence. They have no doubts. I could never have done that. I lived with doubts all the time. It was the doubts, I guess, that drove me.
—Tony Kornheiser
The first time some people ever set foot on a golf course they instinctively know. This is not just some pastoral setting for friendly outings and a little fresh air. This is an arena. A place where athletes come to compete. To excel. To do things no one thought possible.
—adidas Golf
Walked by No. 10 tee at Congressional a hundred times last week. Even took some photos. None of them this remarkable.
Who are you, LeBron James? What’s inside you? And why do I care so much?
Whatever the answers, I will spend Thursday night just as riveted as everyone else. It couldn’t be a better outcome for the NBA, which doesn’t need LeBron to match Jordan’s greatness, just his ability to keep people watching and thinking and talking and wondering. Mission accomplished. The Decision made it happen. Somewhere behind closed doors, David Stern and Adam Silver are high-fiving. Don’t tell anyone.
—It’s Time for LeBrondown, Part II, Grantland.com
Today’s grads enter a cultural climate that preaches the self as the center of a life. But, of course, as they age, they’ll discover that the tasks of a life are at the center. Fulfillment is a byproduct of how people engage their tasks, and can’t be pursued directly. Most of us are egotistical and most are self-concerned most of the time, but it’s nonetheless true that life comes to a point only in those moments when the self dissolves into some task. The purpose in life is not to find yourself. It’s to lose yourself.
—It’s Not About You, David Brooks (via hellofriend)
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