Amy > Amy's Quotes

“This is the conclusion I have come to: if we work at it, it is always possible to find a rational explanation for what we don't understand. But perhaps it is wiser once in a while to accept that we don't understand, and stop there. To explain is sometimes to diminish. And what does it matter if I believe one thing and you believe another? We share the same end.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“When you're the least experienced person in the room, it's not the time to show off. You don't yet know what you don't know - and regardless of your abilities, your experience and your level of authority, there will definitely be something you don't know.”
― Chris Hadfield

“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
― Hunter S Thompson

“Sometimes, Harold, the way forward takes you by surprise. You try to force something in the familiar direction and discover that what it needs is to move in a different dimension. The way forward is not forward, but off to one side, in a place you have not noticed before.”
― Rachel Joyce, The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy

“I find many mass cards from the funerals of people whose faces I no longer remember. In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment. In fact they serve only to make clear how inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here. How inadequately I appreciated the moment when it was here is something else I could never afford to see.”
― Joan Didion, Blue Nights

“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“Practice isn't the thing you do once you're good. It's the thing you do that makes you good.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

“We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.”
― haruki murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running