Quotes About Struggle

Black soldiers found themselves in a dilemma. On the one hand they were being trained to risk their lives in defense of the country, while on the other hand they were being told to accept their role as inferior citizens.

There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth

he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things that to others seemed miracles.

Okay, it's not easy, but that's why we're no Einstein and he was.

As [the company] has grown larger and larger, I have enjoyed my daily work less and less

He was not able to achieve inner calm. Kottke remembers him getting into a furious shouting match with a Hindu woman in a village marketplace who, Jobs alleged, had

Turing did have a tendency toward being a loner. His homosexuality made him feel like an outsider at times; he lived alone and avoided deep personal commitments.

By the summer of 1996 Amelio realized that he had a serious problem.

Reality is unforgiving.

home so exhausted that he could barely speak. "That's probably when this cancer started growing, because my immune system was pretty weak at that time," he said. It is unclear whether exhaustion or a weak immune system could have caused his cancer. However, his kidney problems

The two great Semitic peoples," he said, "have a great common future." If the Jews did not assure that both sides lived in harmony, he warned friends in the Zionist movement, the struggle would haunt them in decades to come.78 Once again, he was labeled naïve.

The Loser Now Will Be Later to Win

summer of 1989, he asked her to marry him. She couldn't do it. It would drive her crazy, she told friends. She had grown up in a volatile household, and her relationship with Jobs bore too many similarities to that environment. They were opposites who attracted

When you have feelings," he said, "like sadness or anger about your cancer or your plight, to mask them is to lead an artificial life.

Caring deeply about someone who seemed incapable of caring was a particular kind of hell that she wouldn't wish on anyone, she said.

There was another reason that Joanne was balky about signing the adoption papers. Her father was about to die, and she planned to marry Jandali soon after. She held out hope, she would later tell family members, sometimes tearing up at the memory, that once they were married, she could get their baby boy back.

The trouble with Oppenheimer is that he loves a woman who doesn't love him—the United States government," Einstein said.

Jobs's obstinacy lasted for nine months after his October 2003 diagnosis. Part of it was the product of the dark side of his reality distortion field. "I think Steve has such a strong desire for the world to be a certain way that he wills it to be that way," Levinson speculated. "Sometimes it doesn't work. Reality is unforgiving.

And we would relate to the way he tried to balance, sometimes uneasily, the pursuit of reputation, wealth, earthly virtues, and spiritual values.2

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

To him, marriage was confining, which was a state he instinctively resisted.

Even a genius like Schopenhauer was crushed by unemployment," he wrote. "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving."30 Eduard

I do not know how the Third World War will be fought," he answered, "but I can tell you what they will use in the Fourth—rocks.

Among the many surprising things about the life of Albert Einstein was the trouble he had getting an academic job.