There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that taking risks is essential for discovery, and the nature of those risks reflects our true values.
Jeanette Winterson's quote highlights the intrinsic relationship between risk and discovery, suggesting that without embracing uncertainty, we cannot make new breakthroughs or learn from our experiences. Furthermore, the risks we choose to take reveal our deepest values and priorities, shedding light on what we hold dear in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.
People make a lot of effort not to remember, not to accept their immense magical potential.
It (LSD) opened my eyes. We only use one-tenth of our brain. Just think of what we could accomplish if we could only tap that hidden part! It would mean a whole new world if the politicians would take LSD. There wouldn't be any more war or poverty or famine.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs.
I want to be able to be alone, to find it nourishing - not just a waiting.
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