We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
KV
Kurt VonnegutIf This Isn't Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young (2013)
About Kurt Vonnegut
American novelist, author of Slaughterhouse-Five. (1922-2007)
More from Kurt Vonnegut
- We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.Mother Night (1961), introduction
- I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'Knowing What's Nice, essay in In These Times (2003)
- Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.Hocus Pocus (1990)
More quotes on courage
- If you hear a voice within you saying, 'You are not a painter,' then by all means paint, boy, and that voice will be silenced, but only by working.Vincent van Gogh
- They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn't. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.Frida Kahlo
- I know how it looks. But just start. Nothing is insurmountable.Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right.' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.Napoleon Hill
- No matter what happens, always be yourself!Dale Carnegie
- Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.Dale Carnegie
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