You are never freer than in that moment when you decide to expose yourself to sniper fire.
What's interesting about golf is that most athletes end up gravitating toward golf because it is such a difficult sport.
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation.
Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Pursue what you love, what you are passionate about. Don't let somebody else dictate your life's path.
Talent isn't as important as the work and dedication necessary to become competent.
Confidence is believing in your own ability, knowing what you have to do to win. My confidence was developed through preparation.
When I'm writing, especially when I'm writing in first person, I don't think about the characterization, or how they are going to express themselves, I just express my own approach to these things. I think most writers can never divorce themselves from their private lives and personas; they are the ones that are writing. And the more they remove themselves from their own persona, the more, perhaps, mechanical the work becomes.
It's only by starting in a place of peace that we find our purpose and power.
In my personal life, I am very contemplative.
In the fight between biology and morality, biology has commonly won in the end.