Academy of Achievement recorded interview, American Academy of Achievement, 16 March 1991 source ↗
Fearlessness means taking the first step, even if you don't know where it will take you. It means being driven by a higher purpose rather than by applause.”
Always remember that it's much easier to apologize than to get permission. In this world of computers, the best thing to do is to do it.
One thing I state as soon as we’re out of the door: ‘Under no circumstances is anyone to say that I lost a battle with cancer. Or that I bore it bravely. I am not fighting, losing, winning or bearing.’ I will not personify the cancer cells inside me in any form. I reject all metaphors of attack or enmity in the midst, and will have nothing whatever to do with any notion of desert, punishment, fairness or unfairness, or any kind of moral causality.
Get on with it. But make sure you do want to do it. I think that’s the important thing, to be something that you would enjoy. If you only just go into science to get rich or to win gold medals, then I wouldn’t bother, but if you really want to enjoy yourself in the lab, then do it.
Óscar Arias Sánchez, Andrew Young, Wendy Kopp, Margaret Thatcher, Desmond Tutu, Eleanor Roosevelt
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