Michael Conniff

“Gisele had a tradition she attempted to uphold on the last day of every year. She’d write two lists, one containing the achievements and actions from the previous 365 days she was proud of, the other devoted to enumerating what she wanted to improve upon in the upcoming year. Then she would meditate on those lists and come up with goals for the New Year. She’d ask herself questions: Did I take full advantage”
― Lars Anderson, Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

“Brady, dressed in his workout clothes, his already-intense eyes shining with eagerness. “It’s time to go to the stadium,” he said. Looking at his roommate, Nugent shook his head from side to side in a waltz of disbelief and thought, Are you kidding me? This guy just won a Super Bowl and he’s already getting after it.”
― Lars Anderson, Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

“What really motivates me is self-doubt,” Brady said during the spring. “And I don’t know why it’s always there … Sometimes I wish it wasn’t there.”
― Lars Anderson, Brady: An American Story and the Price of Greatness

“Moving house to house, the small team of young firefighters learned that firestorm wasn’t the only risk on the rise in the Berkeley hills. There was also the shockingly high risk of shitstorms. That mere citizens bore some kind of responsibility to make changes to their private property for the sake of the wider community fueled a familiar outrage—the outrage of people who once didn’t understand why they should be vaccinated, or wear masks.”
― Michael Lewis, Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State