What advice would you give your twenty-year-old self, and what should they ignore?
Recorded Susan Wojcicki said elsewhere, not written here
Life doesn't offer you the perfect opportunity at the perfect time. Opportunities come when you least expect them ... Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ‘Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.’ Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.

Johns Hopkins University Commencement, Class of 2014, HuffPost, May 2014 source ↗

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Lech Wałęsa President of Poland, 1990–1995; co-founder and chairman of the Solidarity trade union
When I recall my own path of life I cannot but speak of the violence, hatred and lies. A lesson drawn from such experiences, however, was that we can effectively oppose violence only if we ourselves do not resort to it.
Recorded Oslo City Hall (lecture read on his behalf by Bogdan Cywiński), The Nobel Foundation, 11 December 1983 source ↗
Siya Kolisi South Africa international rugby union flanker and captain
I think I wouldn't have made it if I didn't go through those struggles but that still doesn't make it right for kids to have to go through the past that I went through.
Recorded Red Bull, 8 November 2019 source ↗
Jenny Diski Novelist and essayist
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.
Recorded London Review of Books, Vol. 36 No. 17, 11 September 2014 source ↗
Eliud Kipchoge Kenyan marathon runner
Only the disciplined ones are free in life. If you are undisciplined, you are a slave to your moods. You are a slave to your passions.
Recorded Address at the Oxford Union Society, November 2017, Outside, 10 February 2018 source ↗

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