“To me, the most important part of winning is joy. You can win without joy, but winning that’s joyless is like eating in a four-star restaurant when you’re not hungry. Joy is a current of energy in your body, like chlorophyll or sunlight, that fills you up and makes you naturally want to do your best.” - Bill Russell
I believe that if we all have to be on this spinning planet at the same time, we might as well try to make each other enjoy it as much as possible. This includes in the workplace, where I try to bring a little bit of joy no matter how dreary/down-in-the-muck work can be at any given time. Every project can’t be the most exciting, fun one there is, but that doesn’t mean we ourselves can’t be.
Also:
I have lived in both Mississippi and Brooklyn and while I don’t want to promote stereotypes, only one of these places had great Chinese food.
I spend way too much time thinking about “Friday Night Lights” and how it’s even possible that Tim Riggins didn’t play defense.
The greatest ideas are ones that make people burn with envy because they’re so simple they seem inevitable.
I love, love, love BBC sitcoms, both old and new.
As a young boy my mother gave me one line of advice: "learn to type, and learn to dance." Unfortunately for me, she was right.
I do not understand people who don't love Christmas (yes that's why my url is xmastimewriter.com).
I believe Holden Caulfield grew up to be Pete Campbell.
The best work is when you secretly can’t believe they’re paying you to do it.
I am the proverbial middle child.
I don’t know why hockey teams don’t use .net for their website suffixes.
I was born and raised in Virginia but sound like a Northerner because my mother hated the South and refused to lose her Boston accent. (Don’t worry, I do NOT have a Boston accent myself.)
The only reason I’d want to have kids is so I can yell at one who's left the front door open, "hey, I'm not trying to heat the entire goddam outdoors you know!"
However, my first act upon being elected president would be to force restaurants to allow adults to order off the kids’ menu.
I think the phrase "a bad day at the ballpark is better than a good day at work" makes no sense if you work at a ballpark.
Sometimes I think the definition of copywriting is, “the art of creating copy that can be passed around until it eventually finds someone who does not like it.”
I believe that making someone laugh is one of the noblest things anyone can do for another person.
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