Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.
Interpretation
Don't let your insecurities hold you back from engaging with the world around you.
This quote encourages individuals to confront their doubts and fears rather than allowing them to hinder their actions or the progress of the world around them. It highlights the importance of personal courage and resilience in the face of uncertainty and emphasizes that the world will continue to move forward regardless of one's internal struggles.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming personal fears.
This was a Golden Age, a time of high adventure, rich living and hard dying... but nobody thought so. This was a future of fortune and theft, pillage and rapine, culture and vice... but nobody admitted it. This was an age of extremes, a fascinating century of freaks... but nobody loved it.
"There's got to be more to life than just living," Foyle said to the robot. "Then find it for yourself, sir. Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts." "Why can't we all move forward together?" "Because you're all different. You're not lemmings. Some must lead, and hope that the rest will follow." "Who leads?" "The men who must... driven men, compelled men." "Freak men." "You're all freaks, sir. But you always have been freaks. Life is a freak. That's its hope and glory."
Toughness found fertile soil in the hearts of Palestinians, and the grains of resistance embedded themselves in their skin. Endurance evolved as a hallmark of refugee society. But the price they paid was the subduing of tender vulnerability. They learned to celebrate martyrdom. Only martyrdom offered freedom. Only in death were they at last invulnerable to Israel. Martyrdom became the ultimate defiance of Israeli occupation.
How I conned the Grand Wizard, David Duke, and his coterie of followers... It has defined me in ways I never could have imagined.
Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
I never set out to convert anyone in the Klan. I just set out to get an answer to my question: 'How can you hate me when you don't even know me.'
Kindness towards strangers is rare in North Korea. There is a risk to helping others. The state made accusers and informers of us all.
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