Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
I don't regret not coming out early. A lot of people felt that I could have been a lottery pick, but we'll never know.
It's always good to go against your friends, especially when you come out victorious.
My thing is, I want to play basketball, I would enjoy playing in the D-League, but at the same time I don't want to take an opportunity away from a young guy to get exposure. I'm still thinking about it.
I prepare myself in the summer to play 48 minutes. It's not a logical goal, but that's the way I prepare.
You have to get yourself psyched up because you never have a night off defensively, especially at my position.
To me, defense is a mental attitude it takes will and heart to go out there and lock your man up.
How [stories] are told, who tells them, when they’re told, how many stories are told — are really dependent on power.
Some writers can only deal with childhood experience, because it's complete. For another kind of writer, life goes on, and he's able to keep processing that as well.
Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it.
I think when I look out and I see there's so much negativity in the world and a lot of people are unhappy and a lot people are anxious, it just feels like that's one view of the world. But you don't have to always focus on that view of the world.