"There is a time in every man's education
when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is
suicide; that he must take himself for better or worse; that though the wide
universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but
through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to
till"
Ralph Waldo Emerson "Self-Reliance"
(1841)
"The sea is dangerous and its storms
terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain
ashore...unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things
that seem impossible...it is with an iron will that they embark on the most
daring of all endeavors...to meet the shadowy future, without fear and conquer
the unknown."
Ferdinand Magellan (1520) |
