1. “It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as the novelist who is over certain of his plot.” –Paul Theroux American novelist, travel writer, and author of The Great Railway Bazaar
2. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” –Frederick Douglass African-American social reformer, leader of the abolitionist movement
3. “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” –Niccolò Machiavelli 16th-century Italian philosopher, dubbed “the father of modern political science,” author of The Prince
2. “I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” –Frederick Douglass African-American social reformer, leader of the abolitionist movement
3. “All courses of action are risky, so prudence is not in avoiding danger (it’s impossible), but calculating risk and acting decisively. Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not the strength to suffer.” –Niccolò Machiavelli 16th-century Italian philosopher, dubbed “the father of modern political science,” author of The Prince
Referenc
Ferriss, Timothy. Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World (P. 210). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
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