Like the statue of David, our Authentic Swing already exists, concealed within the stone, so to speak. Keeler broke in with excitement. Then our task as golfers, according to this line of thought… …is...
Last of terror’s stages, Selene had tutored Europa and me, is busyness.
It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
It was an era when history butted up against mythology,
Is it healthy for a society to entrust its defense to one percent of its population, while the other 99 percent thanks its lucky stars that it doesn’t have to do the dirty work?
Instead of applying self-knowledge, self-discipline, delayed gratification and hard work, we simply consume a product.
In the hierarchy, the artist faces outward. Meeting someone new he asks himself, What can this person do for me? How can this person advance my standing? In the hierarchy, the artist looks up and lo...
In short, if the Muse exists, she does not whisper to the untalented.
In other words, any act that rejects immediate gratification in favor of long-term growth, health, or integrity. Or, expressed another way, any act that derives from our higher nature instead of our l...
Improvisation is not a wild scramble at the last minute. You are not pulling plans out of thin air. Improvisation is the payoff of scrupulous preparation and drill.
Ignorance and arrogance are the artist and entrepreneur’s indispensable allies. She must be clueless enough to have no idea how difficult her enterprise is going to be—and cocky enough to believe she...
If we were born to overthrow the order of ignorance and injustice of the world, it's our job to realize it and get down to business.
If tomorrow morning by some stroke of magic every dazed and benighted soul woke up with the power to take the first step toward pursuing his or her dreams, every shrink in the directory would be out o...
If the upper realm is, as Plato suggested, the sphere of perfect love, truth, justice, and beauty, then the artist seeks to call down the magic of this world and to create, by dint of labor and luck,...
He looks upon sky and steppe and sees that which God has created. I look and see God Himself.
He is prepared, each day, to confront his own self-sabotage.
Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.
Habit will be your champion. When you train the mind to think one way and one way only, when you refuse to allow it to think in another, that will produce great strength in battle.’ They
For what can be more noble than to slay oneself? Not literally. Not with a blade in the guts. But to extinguish the selfish self within, that part which looks only to its own preservation, to save its...
Don’t prepare. Begin.