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In the end, I’m an advocate for obsession. I’d like to qualify that to mean only good obsessions, but that feels like cheating. I’m prepared for us to accept the costs of the towering benefits certain obsessions provide. Besides, who wants to watch football played by lazy, out-of-shape teams who haven’t studied their playbooks?
On Character
Stanley McChrystal
Katzenberg’s solution was for Disney executives to seek out actors and writers who were talented but either hadn’t achieved or had lost the superstardom that allowed those at the very top to charge a celebrity surcharge. “All the big-time writers have one thing in common,” Katzenberg wrote. “They were all once unknown and thrilled just to make a sale. The future big-time writers are out there and would be grateful just to be considered by our studio. To find them, we have to search harder, dig deeper . . . and be there first.”
Plutocrats
Chrystia Freeland
Together, the three disciplines constitute a comprehensive approach to life, and in various combinations and reformulations they underlie a large number of the entries in the Meditations. We see them laid out starkly and explicitly in Meditations 7.54: Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option: to accept this event with humility [will]; to treat this person as he should be treated [action]; to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in [perception].
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
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