Good spectator sports share certain fundamentals. Their competitors battle head-to-head. Their winners are determined objectively: fastest runner, most points. They are refereed, not judged.
Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.
We should confine booing in sports arenas to sport. I love a good boo as much as the next football fan.
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading.
I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.
For me, the brand of the camera is not the most important thing. I think you can take good pictures with the camera on your phone.
It's very important to feel good in my clothes. I like fashion that suits me. I don't take it too seriously.
Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
I'm a believer in what your record is. I am what my record is - some of it good, some of it bad, some of it hard to tell.
Most of us entered journalism and joined 'news organizations' because we care about the greater good. We strive to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable.
But sometimes it's good to dare yourself to do the unthinkable. And rather than stand in front of an audience with no clothes on, I decided to have a go at stand-up comedy.
The two questions that anyone ever asks me are: 'Are house prices going to go down?' and 'Is it a good time to fix my mortgage rate?'
I think that's a hallmark of a really good story that it has readers that it speaks to more than others.
Journalists are accused of being lapdogs when they don't ask the hard questions, but then accused of being rude when they do. Good thing we have tough hides.
It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter.
I think that good storytelling of any kind does promote a humility in that it encourages you to see the world the way that other people see it.
I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.
Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
No good case exists for the inequality of real and intellectual property, because no good case can exist for treating with special disfavor the work of the spirit and the mind.
