"I am a frail vessel full of errors."

-- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#Errors Quotes #Self Quotes #Frail Quotes

“Holiness is a disposition of the heart that makes us humble and little in the arms of God, aware of our weakness, and confident - in the most audacious way - in His Fatherly goodness.”
“I don't have that same ambition I had when I was younger.”
“Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.”
“The first rule of all air combat is to see the opponent first. Like the hunter who stalks his prey and maneuvers himself unnoticed into the most favourable position for the kill, the fighter in the opening of a dogfight must detect the opponent as early as possible in order to attain a superior position for the attack.”

Source : Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”
“Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. But lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it.”
“When I found myself in the U.S., and the war was at full swing in Bosnia, I read for survival - it was a means of thought resuscitation.”
“I sometimes joke that when I die, my tombstone will say, 'Here lies the guy who hired Jonathan Ive,'”

Source : "An Oral History Of Apple Design: 1992" by Max Chafkin, www.fastcodesign.com. September 03, 2013.
“Shattered dreams, worthless years, here I am encased in a hollow shell. Life began, then was done, now I stare into a cold and empty well.”

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