There is no discovery without risk and what you risk reveals what you value.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes that taking risks is essential for discovery, and the nature of those risks reflects our true values.
Jeanette Winterson's quote highlights the intrinsic relationship between risk and discovery, suggesting that without embracing uncertainty, we cannot make new breakthroughs or learn from our experiences. Furthermore, the risks we choose to take reveal our deepest values and priorities, shedding light on what we hold dear in our lives.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
What matters deafness of the ear, when the mind hears? The one true deafness, the incurable deafness, is that of the mind.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
Failure is information-we label it failure, but it's more like, 'This didn't work, I'm a problem solver, and I'll try something else.'
Self respect is something that can't be killed. The worst thing is to kill a man's pretense at it.
The infinite faith I have in people's ability to understand anything that makes sense has always been justified, finally, by their behavior.
though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.
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