Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.
I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.
I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'
It was bloody difficult getting followed around all the time.
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding every day, I would have quit a long time ago.
I'm on the road a lot so when I get some time to relax I definitely take advantage.
Every time I've had a bad performance at an event, I've come back more determined and focused.
Any time something does that well, you gotta follow up.
I don't use names or captions for my many portraits of politicians and authors for newspapers. The drawing has to be self-explanatory, so I spend a lot of time sketching to find an idea and an angle that is clear.
It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.
I'm a natural golden retriever at heart. I'm fine with that now, but there was a time when I tried to keep myself from jumping up on people. I had to make myself sit.
I used to be terribly shy, so I was either shy or over the top, and I always had a difficult time.
Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.
The only way into truth is through one's own annihilation; through dwelling a long time in a state of extreme and total humiliation.
We kid ourselves that we're trying to be empathetic with the human condition from a distance, but I don't think that is it at all. It's stupid; it's a waste of time. But when the earth flexes its muscles, that's rather different. That's a powerful re...
All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that manki...
To be perfectly honest the old habits, specifically deadlines, still very much inform what I do. I am brutally disciplined about getting manuscripts in on time.
A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.
We spent an enormous amount of time as hominids and as primates living as hunter-gatherers. That is the natural way for us to live, and we're suddenly living in this profoundly unnatural way, and we're still in the process of adapting to it and worki...
