Niamh Cusack: What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

What is the most important lesson life has taught you?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Niamh Cusack said elsewhere, not written here

Things change.

Rosanna Greenstreet, The Q&A, The Guardian, 2 October 2021 source ↗

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Andrew Ridgeley

That further lessons await.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 14 December 2024 source ↗

Clive Myrie British journalist, newsreader, and presenter

Be kind and do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 June 2024 source ↗

Richard Feynman Theoretical physicist; Nobel laureate in Physics, 1965

It is necessary, I believe, to accept this idea, not only for science, but also for other things; it is of great value to acknowledge ignorance. It is a fact that when we make decisions in our life we don't necessarily know that we are making them correctly; we only think that we are doing the best we can – and that is what we should do.

Recorded Caltech YMCA Lunch Forum, Engineering and Science / Caltech Magazine, 2 May 1956 source ↗

Paul Kalanithi Neurosurgeon and writer

I remember the moment when my overwhelming uneasiness yielded. Seven words from Samuel Beckett, a writer I’ve not even read that well, learned long ago as an undergraduate, began to repeat in my head, and the seemingly impassable sea of uncertainty parted: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” I took a step forward, repeating the phrase over and over: “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.” And then, at some point, I was through.

Recorded The New York Times, Sunday Review, 24 January 2014 source ↗