why people spend so much time on activities like sports, with little monetary reward – flow
Quotes
Charles Murray
Alex Graham Bell and Darwin getting credit, while others with the same ideas did not.
Lucian
On sculptors in ancient Rome: ‘No more than a workman, doing hard physical labor,…obscure, earning a small wage, a man of low esteem, classed
Confucius
Lead the people by laws and regulate them by penalties, and the people will try to keep out of jail, but will have no
Charles Murray
Sports as an objective measure of success.
Johnny Depp, As Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean
Take What you can – give nothing back. (Toast between two pirates.)
Joe Gibbs
Gibbs believed in small rewards for his players….and would give Sony Walkmans for a quarterback sack…We’d have have guys making $500,000 who were more
Gelett Burgess
It is in the blood of genius to love play for its own sake, and whether one uses one’s skill on thrones or women,
Philip Orbanes
Robert Barton’s (president of Parker Brothers game makers) experience had taught him that timing is more important than any other factor when making a
Marc Connelly, On Earnest Hemingway
His laughter was the deep laughter of the healthy, sane, unafraid inhabitant of a confusing world.