Quotes April 08-18, 2024

When you look at this mirror I hope you’ll remember that there’s always another way of seeing things: that’s the beginning of wisdom.
John Barth,
writer
1930-2024
 
 
 
 
I think we helped create a place for a civil discourse and respect for complexity in a medium which often respects neither. … Those aren’t small things.
To have been able hold the line … against a tide that’s going to engulf us all in the end, for a few years, has been a source of gratification to me.
Robert MacNeil,
broadcast journalist, news anchor
1931-2024
 
 
 
 
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it or dreaming about it. … I got there by working for it.
Estee Lauder,
entrepreneur, businessperson
 
 
 
 
Who knows what is on the opposite side of each hour!
Juan Ramon Jimenez,
poet, editor, critic, Nobel Prize in Literature recipient
 
 
 
 
Trust in yourself, embrace challenges as opportunities for growth, and strive to become the best version of yourself.
Motivation, perseverance, curiosity and desire is the secret magic sauce.
Kimberly Washington,
entrepreneur, founder of Space4Girls
 
 
 
 
Choose your journey, change your journey, own your journey, but above all else, enjoy your journey.
I don’t think people understand that a lot of what we’re doing in space is about making life here on Earth better, or studying Earth and how Earth is changing.
Susan Kilrain,
aerospace engineer, astronaut, test pilot
 
 
 
 
Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
Joshua J. Marine – Author
 
 
 
 
Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang con Goethe – 1749-1832 – Poet-Novelist-Scientist
 
 
 
 
Gratitude begins where our sense of entitlement ends.
Steven Furtic – Pastor and Songwriter
 
 
 
 
Most people have the will to win, few have the will to prepare to win.
Bobby Knight – Basketball Coach
 
 
 
 
The law of the harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, you reap a habit. Sow a habit and you reap a character. Sow a character and you reap a destiny.
James Allen – 1864-1912 – Author
 
 
 
 
The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.
John Maynard Keynes – 1883-1946 – Economist-Mathematician
 
 
 
 
The control center of your life is your attitude.
Norman Cousins – 1915-1990, Journalist and Author
 
 
 
 
The best project you’ll ever work on is you.
Sonny Franco – Actor