The unusual is only found in a very small percentage, except in literary creations, and that is exactly what makes literature.
The nature of athletic celebrity is increasingly moving away from the actual field of play.
Success has to do with deliberate practice. Practice must be focused, determined, and in an environment where there's feedback.
It takes ten thousand hours to truly master anything. Time spent leads to experience; experience leads to proficiency; and the more proficient you are the more valuable you'll be.
Innovators have to be open. They have to be able to imagine things that others cannot and be willing to challenge their own preconceptions. They also need to be conscientious. An innovator who has brilliant ideas but lacks the discipline and persistence to carry them out is merely a dreamer. . . But crucially, innovators need to be disagreeable. . . They are people willing to take social risks-to do things that others might disapprove of.
That's your responsibility as a person, as a human being - to constantly be updating your positions on as many things as possible. And if you don't contradict yourself on a regular basis, then you're not thinking.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
God's Teeth,' he says. 'I was only trying to wake you. You were crying out in your sleep. ' 'I was not,' I say, then look from his neck to my knife. 'When I tried to wake you, you stabbed me. ' He sounds sore put out. and I cannot blame him.
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go from my studio to my bedroom. Everything else is extraneous. I never entertain, because to me, New York is about meeting people in public spaces, absorbing a little bit of their energy.
Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
I went to New York and Miami and hung out by the beach, and I love the American boys, so I wrote a song about it.