Crash Test Girl Quotes

“Life is short: surrender your dignity.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“It was time for me to throw out my expectations and my baggage, but, most importantly, my assumptions. About myself, about life, and about who can and can't have the career of their dreams. I searched my mind for a mantra. At the top of the list was the all-purpose powerhouse: "Why not?”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“To be successful, you don’t have to be right, but you do have to understand, with a scientist’s emotional detachment, why you were wrong.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Scars are cool. Like wrinkles, they prove you’ve really lived.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Art and science are both creative processes about using the tools at hand, being struck with bright ideas, and getting your hands dirty. By living as a “scientist,” I saw how adding an “artist” sensibility to science and vice versa lifted them both.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“You can't wait for the fancy invitation, the golden door with a neon sign that says, YOUR LIFE THIS WAY, or the giant X on the treasure map. You'll be waiting for eternity. You have to choose your own adventure, take the trip, enroll in the class, say "yes" when you are afraid. You are the X on the map.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Bravery isn't being a superhero. It's what you have to do to be free.
Bravery is not giving a shit.
It's getting messy and facing the consequences.
It's being who you are, and where you are, right now.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Be brave" has been my life mission statement in general, starting when i was that scared shy girl. It was obvious to me even then that courage in the face of fear is the main ingredient in any recipe for success and happiness.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“When you do anything in life, be it starting a new job, testing a myth, or shooting a cannonball, failure is always an option .”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“When you anything in life, be it starting a new job, testing a myth, or shooting a cannonball failure is always an option.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Your course to get from point A to point B might not be linear, so cast a wide net, be all over the map, and expect your destination to change.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“You have to own you actions and your emotional reactions to what you do, even if they haunt you still, years later.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Ironically, the happiest time of my life, bringing Stella into the world, was also the saddest.
What can I say? I tend to go to extremes. When I became a mother, I learned what it meant to push past my limits, to sacrifice and do whatever was necessary for the greater good at work and at home. I fought back against the worst misery I'd ever known, and gained strength by just fucking doing it. You don't know how strong you can be until you have to be.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“I was able to get my anxiety and stress under control, and felt like I'd taken my power back by proactively addressing my reaction to the problem, if not eradicating the problem itself.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“Allow yourself to figure out what temporary or permanent friends mean for you, and what you are supposed to do for them, and no human connection will be wasted. Everyone is an experience to learn from.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions

“no human connection will be wasted. Everyone is an experience to learn from.”
― Kari Byron, Crash Test Girl: An Unlikely Experiment in Using the Scientific Method to Answer Life’s Toughest Questions