This quote is commonly attributed to Amelia Earhart, but I have not been able to locate a primary source. Use with caution in academic or professional contexts.
“Preparation, I have often said, is rightly two-thirds of any venture.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“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.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“It is far easier to start something than it is to finish it.”
— Amelia Earhart Primary source“Anticipation, I suppose, sometimes exceeds realization.”
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“Life is our dictionary.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren’t with me I haven’t a thing in the world.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“There are many ways in which it can be helped, but it can never be helped by merely talking about it. We must act. We must act quickly.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt Primary source“One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike—and yet it is the most precious thing we have.”
— Albert Einstein Primary source