Quotes
“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
“I have hated words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right.”
“You don't have to be fast. But you'd better be fearless.”
“The ability to yield, to bend, to give way, to accommodate, he said, was sometimes a source of strength in men as well as in wood, so long as it was helmed by inner resolve and by principle.”
“I thought I’d solved a problem when really I was creating new ones by taking the path of least resistance.”
“Sometimes attaining the deepest familiarity with a question is our best substitute for actually having the answer.”
“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
“Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.”
“Innovative people do not need to be told to do it, they need to be allowed to do it.”
“Their path to advancement might look less like a straight line and more like some of the pressure distributions and orbits they plotted, but they were determined to take a seat at the table.”
“This is one of the most important lessons of the scientific method: if you cannot fail, you cannot learn.”
“Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot—about the world we live in, and about our own past.”
“Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-—that and such hope as I bring.”
“I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.”
“It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.”
“My life was narrated for me by others. Their voices were forceful, emphatic, absolute. It had never occurred to me that my voice might be as strong as theirs.”
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
“You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.”
“You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow.”
“The reason you're reading this book is that I did a dangerous thing for a man in my position: I decided to tell the truth.”