“It is the opposite of ignorance—it is intellectual honesty: to be willing to accept reality and to call things what they are even when it is hard.” HardRealityAcceptingHonestyIgnoranceWillingIntellectualOppositesIntellectual Honesty Book:Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back Source: Heaven is for Real Movie Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.” KnowsWantWritingKindImportantMomentsNextCommonAchieveEffectsPossibilityWillingBasketballShotsDiscoveryFlowLaborOppositesWhat You WantFinding YourselfTranscendencePurposefulness Author:Stephen Dunn
“If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked for. Malcolm Gladwell, in his newest book "David and Goliath," writes about how sometimes things that we think of as handicaps often times are just the opposite. Or the reverse is also true.” IfsThinkingKnowsWantWritingBookSometimesLaughingWillingOppositesReverseHandicapsGoliath Author:Bruce Greenwood