The Extinction Trials Quotes

“For your first job, don’t pick the one that pays you the most. Or the one where you like the people the most. Pick the one where you can learn the most.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Life isn’t about your limitations. They matter far less than you think. You make a living doing what you’re good at. That’s what’s important—your strengths, not your limitations.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Well, I favor assuming the worst. It’s the only way to be prepared for it. Assuming people are going to do the right thing only sometimes pays off. Being a skeptic always pays off.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind. From birth, we are educated on countless aspects of life, from personal hygiene to personal finance, but there is no widely accepted curriculum for understanding and managing our minds. Indeed, almost every human remains the victim of their own mind throughout their entire life, never learning to master it, or manage it, or even understand it. The Birthright was written to change that. This book is an owner’s manual for a human mind. If you read it and do the maintenance it recommends, your mind will run smoothly. It will break down less often, and in the end, it will take you to your birthright. Indeed, a well-tuned mind is the only road to true and lasting happiness. Owen”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind. From birth, we are educated on countless aspects of life, from personal hygiene to personal finance, but there is no widely accepted curriculum for understanding and managing our minds.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“In life, negative feedback has one role: as clues to greater success. If one can’t act on negative feedback to improve, the most appropriate action is very simple: nothing.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“For your first job, don’t pick the one that pays you the most. Or the one where you like the people the”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“A human mind is like a set of tools. It’s a set of tools that determines our destiny. It’s a set of tools that determines our happiness. Most importantly, our mind is a set of tools we are never taught to use. That ends now. Perhaps the most powerful tool our minds possess is perspective. Consider its power through a real-world application of perspective. How does the world look? What is it made of? If you plant your nose in the ground, you get one perspective. Fly above it in a helicopter, you get another perspective. Launch into space in a rocket, and you gain yet another perspective. They are all of the same thing: our world. But it looks and smells and feels very different depending on which perspective you view it from. The same is true for the people in our lives. And our own problems. A person viewed in the context you encounter them in might seem irrational. But if you zoom out and look at their life in a wider view, their actions might make sense. The same is true of the problems you encounter. Some might not seem solvable in the narrow view that is our mind’s default. But, if you change your perspective, if you step back and see the bigger picture, you may find a breakthrough. With your nose in the ground, you can’t see a passage through the mountains. Climbing a mountain, you can’t see the ocean beyond. In the air, you might spot the sea, but you might miss the dangers lurking on the ground. Perspective is a powerful thing.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

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― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“His life hadn’t turned out the way he had planned it. Or imagined it. It was different, but that, he thought, was simply the way life was.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“A fire starts with a spark. A spark gives rise to a flame, a flame becomes a blaze, a blaze an inferno, and finally a wildfire that cannot be stopped. That’s what bad thoughts do to our minds. They begin as a spark—a tiny thought that grows. If that thought gets enough oxygen, it can lead a person to ruin.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“They are all of the same thing: our world. But it looks and smells and feels very different depending on which perspective you view it from. The same is true for the people in our lives. And our own problems. A person viewed in the context you encounter them in might seem irrational. But if you zoom out and look at their life in a wider view, their actions might make sense. The same is true of the problems you encounter. Some might not seem solvable in the narrow view that is our mind’s default. But, if you change your perspective, if you step back and see the bigger picture, you may find a breakthrough. With your nose in the ground, you can’t see a passage through the mountains. Climbing a mountain, you can’t see the ocean beyond. In the air, you might spot the sea, but you might miss the dangers lurking on the ground. Perspective is a powerful thing.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Perhaps the most powerful tool our minds possess is perspective.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“A human mind is like a set of tools. It’s a set of tools that determines our destiny. It’s a set of tools that determines our happiness. Most importantly, our mind is a set of tools we are never taught to use.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“we don’t always remember what happened, but we remember how it makes us feel. And to some extent, we are the product of how our memories have changed how we see the world and how we behave.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“time is precious. You never truly know how much you have. How we spend it matters.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“We say that we spend time for a reason—time is a currency. In the end, it’s the only currency that matters.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“we don’t always remember people—or what they do to us—but we remember how they make us feel. We’re emotional beings, and I believe that is how our memories are stored—and often how we form our opinions.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“In a way, they shared that unique connection: a mental limitation that wasn’t obvious but always evident to them. For Owen, it was being in the dark about what people were feeling or thinking. For Maya, it was being in the dark about her past.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“It’s my limitation. That’s what my mom called it. Because everyone has limitations. We just all have different ones, and some are easier to see than others.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Every human is born with a birthright. That birthright is happiness. Our greatest challenge to achieving happiness is not the obstacles we encounter in our life. The true barrier to happiness lies inside of us—and it’s the one thing we can’t ever escape: our own mind. From birth, we are educated on countless aspects of life, from personal hygiene to personal finance, but there is no widely accepted curriculum for understanding and managing our minds. Indeed, almost every human remains the victim of their own mind throughout their entire life, never learning to master it, or manage it, or even understand it.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Growing up, Owen’s mother and father never used the word handicap. Limitation—that’s the word they used. Because everyone has limitations.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Consider its power through a real-world application of perspective. How does the world look? What is it made of? If you plant your nose in the ground, you get one perspective. Fly above it in a helicopter, you get another perspective. Launch into space in a rocket, and you gain yet another perspective. They are all of the same thing: our world. But it looks and smells and feels very different depending on which perspective you view it from. The same is true for the people in our lives. And our own problems. A person viewed in the context you encounter them in might seem irrational. But if you zoom out and look at their life in a wider view, their actions might make sense. The same is true of the problems you encounter. Some might not seem solvable in the narrow view that is our mind’s default. But, if you change your perspective, if you step back and see the bigger picture, you may find a breakthrough. With your nose in the ground, you can’t see a passage through the mountains. Climbing a mountain, you can’t see the ocean beyond. In the air, you might spot the sea, but you might miss the dangers lurking on the ground. Perspective is a powerful thing.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Tonight, they are evil. Tomorrow, they are survivors. The next day? They are visionaries.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“She smiled at Will. “I see you all haven’t made any wardrobe changes while we were out.” Will sighed theatrically. “Dr. Young, we’re apocalyptic androids, not fashion innovators.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“quickly. “Yes.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“time marches on, a sea that we swim in for a short while, a force that drowns us all in the end.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“defeat a superior enemy without ever firing a shot—and keeping everyone alive—there’s a simple way: erase everyone’s memories. An army can’t fight if they can’t remember what they’re fighting for.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“Perspective is a powerful thing.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials

“That’s cute. But if you don’t survive, you don’t get any more time to spend. Game over and nothing else matters.”
― A.G. Riddle, The Extinction Trials