#om

I think I started learning lessons about being a good person long before I ever knew what basketball was. And that starts in the home, it starts with the parental influence. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basketball #before #being #ever #good

The Florida State League was considered the top A-league back then. You played in the spring training parks of major league teams, traveled throughout some great cities in Florida, and the pay was the best in A-ball. ↗

— Jim Evans

#best #cities #considered #florida #great

If you do things with a certain type of result and cause a certain type of reaction or effect, then you increase your market value. It's very much a competition for the entertainment dollar, and that's never been more clearly evident than in today's NBA game. ↗

— Julius Erving

#cause #certain #clearly #competition #dollar

I have no doubt that in reality the future will be vastly more surprising than anything I can imagine. Now my own suspicion is that the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. ↗

— J.B.S. Haldane

#philosophical #science #wisdom #attitude

I'm a true-crime addict. It's not something I'm particularly proud of, but I can't stop. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#i #particularly #proud #something #stop

There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#camera #even #experience #get #go

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions. ↗

— John Fahey

#directly #drawing #emotions #hypnotic #i

I have a very beautiful room that in my house that we bought in Princeton. It's glass on three sides, and you'd think that's the perfect place to write. Somehow in that nice room I feel too exposed, and I can notice I'm too distracted by things going on, so I end up writing in a not-very-nice office bedroom. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#bedroom #bought #distracted #end #exposed

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody. ↗

— Chris Evert

#give #give me #helped #identity #like

Life's complicated and people do things for a lot of reasons. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#life #lot #people #reasons #things