My favorite stat — 90 percent of female CEOs played sports. Swagger is the belief that we belong in any setting. That we can succeed in any setting. That it is okay to want to be the best. To be in charge. To lead. To have say over our own bodies. To demand equal pay. To be president. Talent has no gender. Leadership has no gender. Badass has no gender.
Author: whatkatythoughtnext
A Curious Incident
I finally got to see this at the weekend and the set was unbelievable – so interesting.
Currently Reading.
Lenny – Friday Interview.
I’ve subscribed to Lenny and I’m loving it. Especially with interviews like this one with Michele Roberts, the first woman to hold the position of Executive Director of the NBPA.
One of my happiest moments when I got this job was meeting Clyde Frazier. But also, living now again in New York, when I would pass an outside court and hear the sound of a basketball ‐ that’s a sound I heard almost every day of my life growing up, because I lived in the projects and we had two large basketball courts that were in the center of the projects. And it wasn’t just the summer. If there wasn’t snow on the ground, every day you could hear the sound of a basketball.
Currently Reading.
Everest.
I went to see Everest this evening – in IMAX 3D. An amazing experience. I’m now really interested in reading John Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air. Adding to the list all the time!
Tender is the Night.
Direction
Even in their absolute immobility, complete as that of the morning, she felt a purpose, a working over of something, a direction, an act of creation different from any she had known.
Nicole
I think things ought to belong to the people that like them.
La Napoule
Another gust of wind strained around the porphyry hills of la Napoule. There was a hint in the air that the earth was hurrying on toward other weather; the lush midsummer moment outside of time was already over.
Electric Picnic 2015
Florence and the Machine – Sunday, September 6.
Paper Towns
Margo.
I don’t know who she is anymore, or who she was, but I need to find her.
The Sky.
… at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these days you’ll look back down and see that you floated away, too.
Imagination.
But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.
And of course the Woody Guthrie description…
“Seriously,” Ben said. “This guy sounds like an alcoholic Kermit the Frog with throat cancer.”
Movies.
I recently saw both Southpaw and Man from U.N.C.L.E.
The former is such a great individual performance from Jake Gyllenhaal. Another one to add to the long list of great films he’s been a part of recently (Nightcrawler for one).
The latter was completely different to Kurt Sutter’s gritty boxing tale but so very enjoyable. And the clothes…
I also rarely come out of a film hoping that there will be a sequel!
Next movie on the to-watch list…. Paper Towns.
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