#trial

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#confine #human #human spirit #limit #matters

Speed eventually neared its peak. The records forced me to work ever harder to drop a less and less time. These time trials came to feel like races, which are fun to run sporadically but not daily. ↗

— Joe Henderson

#daily #drop #eventually #ever #feel

Children do not have to learn that streets are dangerous places by potentially fatal trial and error. ↗

— Keith Henson

#dangerous #error #fatal #learn #places

A close associate of his gave an interview in which the book was described as quotes 'fiction from being to end'. I suffered trial by tabloid for a couple of weeks, lots of insults in the press, in the columns - this man should be put in the tower and so on. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#being #book #close #columns #couple

The pause between the errors and trials of the day and the hopes of the night. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#day #errors #hopes #night #pause

A man who dreads trials and difficulties cannot become a revolutionary. If he is to become a revolutionary with an indomitable fighting spirit, he must be tempered in the arduous struggle from his youth. As the saying goes, early training means more than late earning. ↗

— Kim Jong Il

#become #cannot #difficulties #dreads #early

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage #patience #trials-of-life #courage

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fighting #inspirational #trial #inspirational

He chose The Metamorphosis over The Trial, he chose Bartleby over Moby-Dick, he chose A Simple Heart over Bouvard and Pecuchet, and A Christmas Carol over A Tale of Two Cities or The Pickwick Papers. What a sad paradox, thought Amalfitano. Now even bookish pharmacists are afraid to take on the great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown. They choose the perfect exercises of the great masters. Or what amounts to the same thing: they want to watch the great masters spar, but they have no interest in real combat, when the great masters struggle against that something, that something that terrifies us all, that something that cows us and spurs us on, amid blood and mortal wounds and stench. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#trials

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world. ↗

— Kofi Annan

#abject #billions #countries #developing #hope