We'll not be sending anyone into space before it is safe and the vehicle is well and truly tested.
Knowledge is confidence. And confidence lets you play fast.
Losers assemble in small groups & complain, winners assemble as a team & find ways to win.
Confidence is only born out of one thing demonstrated ability. It is not born of anything else. You cannot dream up confidence. You cannot fabricate it. You cannot wish it. You have to accomplish it.
If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries.
Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.
You are what your record says you are.
I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one.
If we are at all sensitive to the life around us, to one another's pains and joys, to the beauty and fragility of the Earth, it is all about being broken open, allowing ourselves to step out from out hardened veneers and expose our core, allowing ourselves to be vulnerable in our emotional response to the world. And how can we not respond? This is what I mean by being 'broken open. ' To engage. To love. Any one of these actions of the heart will lead to a personal transformation that bears collective gifts.
Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
Abstract art is uniquely modern. It is a fundamentally romantic response to modern life - rebellious, individualistic, unconventional, sensitive, irritable.