Janice

“What I mean by that is: if I wanted to implement something new into my game, I’d see it and try incorporating it immediately. I wasn’t scared of missing, looking bad, or being embarrassed. That’s because I always kept the end result, the long game, in my mind. I always focused on the fact that I had to try something to get it, and once I got it, I’d have another tool in my arsenal. If the price was a lot of work and a few missed shots, I was OK with that.”
― Kobe Bryant, The Mamba Mentality: How I Play

“Even when the dark comes crashin’ through When you need a friend to carry you And when you’re broken on the ground You will be found So let the sun come streamin’ in ’Cause you’ll reach up and you’ll rise again Lift your head and look around You will be found You will be found You will be found You will be found You”
― Steven Levenson, Dear Evan Hansen

“And I too felt bound by my ignorance, by the questions that I had not yet understood to be more than just means, by my lack of understanding, and by Howard itself.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me

“being “politically conscious”—as much a series of actions as a state of being, a constant questioning, questioning as ritual, questioning as exploration rather than the search for certainty.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me