Oh God, I'm awful at sports. In gym I just try and avoid getting hit in the face.
The best way to motivate me is to tell me no.
This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come up with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?
The reality, I believe, is that all change starts small. The big picture is just too unwieldy, too incomprehensible and seemingly immovable. But give us something individual, quantifiable and personalize-able and, suddenly, our perspective shifts to the one.
Jump and the net will appear.
Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.
I actually feel most at home when I find people who make me feel really dumb, who are brilliant at their particular things. And then I gather these people, put them in a room and watch incredible things come out of it.
My theme is memory, that winged host that soared about me one grey morning of war-time. We possess nothing certainly except the past.
Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!
The devil's in most people. Not me, mind you, but most.
Thus another friendship was dashed on the cruel rocks amid the storm of my self-destruction.