Author: Laurence

Ignore your mistakes. The number one thing to worry about is: Am I doing what I’m good at?

Max Levchin
‘Never resist change.. It is a cardinal error.’ ‘Because change is always good?’ ‘No. Because change is inevitable.’

Exchange between characters in the book “The Fine Art of Uncanny Prediction” by Robert Goddard October 7 – one year on.
Healing begins with empathy
Forever is composed of nows.

Emily Dickinson
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?

Satchel Paige
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

George Bernard Shaw
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Abraham Lincoln
Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

Helen Keller
I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace – those would be more realistic goals.

Brad Pitt
Like looking both ways before crossing the street and then getting hit by a submarine.

Clarke Smith, age 9, describing the first year of the pandemic.