Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
Harrison FordRead
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.
Interpretation
Life often presents us with opportunities for a fresh start or a significant transformation.
This quote by Harrison Ford reflects the inevitability of change in our lives and the idea that such changes can serve as pivotal moments for personal growth and reinvention. The notion of a 'second chance' suggests that even when we face challenges or setbacks, there are opportunities to redefine our paths and make impactful choices that can lead to a better future.
In practice
To inspire students before their graduation ceremony.
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high.
Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth.
To me, success is choice and opportunity.
'Years of Living Dangerously' is a wonderful opportunity to reach a lot of people with the story and importance of climate change in our lives; in recent history, there's no bigger threat to the quality of human life than what is taking place right now in respect of climate change.
Bikes and planes aren’t about going fast or having fun; they’re toys, but serious ones.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
You change society by changing the wind. Change the wind, transform the debate, recast the discussion, alter the context in which political discussions are being made, and you will change the outcomes... You will be surprised at how fast the politicians adjust to the change in the wind.
If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
Change is the law of life and of relations between nations. When two great peoples such as ours, energetic and optimistic, live side by side in all the diversity that freedom offers, change is rapid and brings in its wake problems, sometimes frictions.
Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.
There's no miracle formula but we have to move towards a lower carbon economy. We don't have any other choice.
The bicycle freed 19th-century women from their homes and from their dependence on men. I hope that in Saudi Arabia, the car will do the same.
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