We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.
Winning isn’t everything – means vs ends
Climber’s almost die climbing shark’s fin
The fatigue cancels out the joy, so you’re kind of in this middle space. Chin says. Anker’s thoughts were equally conflicted. Exhilaration is something
J.P. Morgan motto from back in the day
Christian Audigier, On catering to the lowest level of taste
My demo is tabloid magazine. I am different from other designers. Because what they say they hate, I love. They say they hate it
Clay Ives, Bronze medal winner in luge, 2002
I was thinking of some of the talks we’ve done with kids, where we say that competing is important, that winning isn’t everything. But
Dr. Joan Abrahamson, Lawyer, Painter, Writer of some three hundred songs, Community activist
By focusing on process – bringing together the resources, meeting with people, learning from them, and seeing how their ideas improve her own –
Brad Pitt
Alexander Hamilton
In times like these in which we live, it will not do to be over-scrupulous. It is easy to sacrifice the substantial interests of
Mr. Truax, About the New Yorker
‘You’re in business to make a profit.’ the stockholder said. Mr. Truax replied: ‘We’re not in business to make a profit in the sense
Jackson Lears
By postulating an innate ‘moral sense’ in every human being, Smith and his colleagues provided an internal counterweight to the amoral anarchy produced by