A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.
You can be stupid once, but idiotic to do it again. I'll settle for being stupid
I'm a great believer in the character of the club. To me, character has a lot to do with how you compete. That creates urgency and toughness. That elevates the talent that you have.
Pressure comes when someone calls on you to perform a task for which you are unprepared.
Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.
It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.
Play the game right. If you play the game intelligently and execute the fundamentals, you can win.
Many an honest man practices upon himself an amount of deceit sufficient, if practised upon another, and in a little different way, to send him to the state prison.
In short, it became possible - never easy, but possible - in the poet Auden's phrase to find the mortal world enough.
Sociopaths differ fairly dramatically in how their brains react to emotional words. An emotional word is love, hate, anger, mom, death, anything that we associate with an emotional reaction. We are wired to process those words more readily than neutral, nonemotional words. We are very emotional creatures. But sociopaths listen as evenly to emotional words as they do to lamp or book - there's no neurological difference.
Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises.