59 Quotes by Greg Jackson

I get a huge kick out of training people, out of helping people, out of just being a part of a process that I get to see people’s dreams come true.

She was proud enough to prefer suffering to fooling herself, which was only a less dignified.

You do brutal workouts to get used to suffering so suffering doesn’t become a defining deal.

Family is no doubt a pier glass for one’s own self-contempt. But for all my regret that this should happen now, for all my frustration and incomprehension, those feelings, I knew, had to be set next to my own meager participation in these lives, the implicit idea that it was enough for me to show up now and again for a few days and assume the unencumbered neutrality that may, in fact, have been no different from my habitual absence.

The true experience of a space, she said, might only reveal itself over time, months – years – of being in the space and using it. “And it’s emotional too, right. How does this space make me feel?” I said. “Which could have to do with sunlight or shade. How a building frames its views, works with a landscape. Which could simply be the absence of nuisance. So not necessarily things people even notice.