“I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.” – Walter Chrysler
Yesterday I had the occasion to walk through Times Square.
Having done it thousands of times, I now enjoy the tourists more than the site itself. [...]
“Don’t let life discourage you. Everyone who got where they are started from where they were.” — quoted by Gary Pritchard
Are you working on a dream?
From minor-league baseball players hoping to reach the majors, to high school athletes working to win a scholarship, to people just hoping to find a job, we’re all working on [...]
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough.” – Mario Andretti
When he was just a boy, a big wave taught Makua Rothman something that every athlete should learn.
It happened in a surfing competition; Rothman was one of the youngest people ever in the event. And then came tons and tons of water.
“I [...]
“If you’re wasting your time or your attention, then start investing it wisely.” – Mitch Thrower, author, The Attention Deficit Workplace
Back in his college days, Rob Gilbert lost a career but gained a story he could tell for life.
Gilbert was studying to be medical doctor, and as part of the training he was required [...]
“Winning isn’t everything, but the will to win is everything.” — Vince Lombardi
St. Patrick’s Day marks a perfect time to discuss the greatest Celtic of them all.
Bill Russell is more than just a Hall of Fame basketball player; he is one of the greatest winners in the history of North American sport. His resume includes [...]
“In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.” — Vincent Van Gogh
Have you ever had a Wal-Mart watermelon day?
In case you’ve never heard the story, many years ago the opening of a new [...]
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together (make) genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.” — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
As I write and post these words, it is the last several minutes of Albert Einstein’s birthday. He was born on March 14, 1879.
As great as Einstein’s achievements were, I [...]
“Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln
This year’s tournament season has already produced an instant classic.
It will be hard for any game to top the UConn-Syracuse contest, which went six overtimes.
But strip away the dramatics, and the game came down to one statistic — free throw [...]
“Some folk want their luck buttered.” — Thomas Hardy
Pro poker player T.J. Cloutier has seen his share of changing fortunes.
He received a sports scholarship. Good luck.
But family financial problems led him to drop out. Bad luck.
He even got a chance to play a pro football in Canada. Good luck.
But got hurt. Bad luck.
He tried his [...]
“It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us into trouble. It’s the things we know that just ain’t so.” — Artemus Ward
Two years ago the Washington Post tried an experiment. The paper persuaded a violin master — Joshua Bell — to set up and play in a subway station to see [...]