“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
Amelia Earhart (verified)
Last Flight (Primary source)
Earhart’s posthumous 1937 journal, compiled from dispatches during her final around-the-world attempt, becomes an inadvertent elegy for American optimism. Her matter-of-fact accounts of technical challenges and geographical wonders now read as her last transmission before vanishing into mystery and legend.
“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization. Whatever the final outcome of the trip itself, certainly there was extraordinary interest in the months of planning for it.”
Amelia Earhart (verified)
“The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard. It retards reactions, makes one unfit. Hamlet would have been a bad aviator. He worried too much.”
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“Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome.”
— Charlie Munger (unverified)“The bell calls others to church, but itself never minds the sermon.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Every gift we accept is a tie. Sometimes, one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.”
— Albert Einstein (verified, secondary source)“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
— Winston Churchill (unverified)