I had my first apartment when I was 16. I got good grades, so my friends would be able to come over to 'study. ' We'd party, and they'd cheat off me. Everybody won!
I've hung out and dated people I've never even met before.
The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.
There may be people who have more talent than you, but there's no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do - and I believe that.
This is why you play - to get an opportunity to play in the playoffs.
I love it when people doubt me. It makes me work harder to prove them wrong.
You have to be confident, if you're not confident you might as well go home.
If you want to spend more money in restaurants, use credit cards more than cash. If you want to spend less, use cash more than credit cards. But in general, we can think about how to use the pain of paying and how much of it do we want. And I think we have like a range. Credit cards have very little pain of paying, debit cards have a little bit more because you feel like today, at least it is coming out of your checking account, and cash has much more.
In Narnia a girl might ring a bell in a deserted temple and feel the chime in her eyes, pure as the freeze that forces tears. Then when the sound dies out, the White Witch wakes. It was like, I want to touch you, and I can touch you, now what next, a dagger?
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
I got into trouble a lot in school. They say you're a disturbance in class. You're a distraction, they're moving you around. You never really get rewarded in class for being funny. You're a disturbance. But the funny kid is often witty and clever and quick. . . they finally get a chance to express themselves when they get out of school.