Pete Conrad Quotes

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

We have built out the diversity of our product teams, and we saw the caliber of our testing and experimentation improve significantly.

My hair didn't even move an inch and I was in and out of the water. My hair's windproof, waterproof, soccerproof, motocycleproof. I'm not sure if my hair's bulletproof I'm not willin' to try that.

Information is shock resistance. Arm yourself.

There's always a lot of pressure with big projects and so as a writer you have to be robust and flexible, with a tough hide.

The only useful information about the market will be what I create through expeditions into the market, through testing and probing, trial and error, by selling real products to real people who pay real money.

An oak and a reed were arguing about their strength. When a strong wind came up, the reed avoided being uprooted by bending and leaning with the gusts of wind. But the oak stood firm and was torn up by the roots.

What a testing of character adversity is.

Antifragility is beyond resilience or robustness. The resilient resists shocks and stays the same; the antifragile gets better.

We have to be much tougher. We have to be much stronger than we've been.

Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

The devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints.-

You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.

Flexibility is the key to stability.

If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource.

I actually never got badly injured - I'm tough as frickin' nails.

Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of hardship comes a greater capacity to accept difficulties without losing our sense of inner calm. Of course, I do not advocate seeking out hardship as a way of life, but merely wish to suggest that, if you relate to it constructively, it can bring greater inner strength and fortitude.

The fortitude which has encountered no dangers, that prudence which has surmounted no difficulties, that integrity which has been attacked by no temptation, can at best be considered but as gold not yet brought to the test, of which therefore the true value cannot be assigned.

The strongest of metals is forged under the most violent of conditions, my lord. It is buried deep in the hottest coals and then beat and pounded until it is bent into shaped. Then it becomes the strongest, most lethal of weapons. A thing of absolute beauty and force

All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.

Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?

Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

All of us gardeners know that nothing comes out the way you planned. It's a different garden every year, and it's always sort of different from what you were thinking when you began. What it really means to be a good gardener is to work hard to produce an ecosystem that will have enough diversity, enough possibilities, so it's robust, and it's resilient, and it can change when the seasons change. And that kind of robust, unexpected, variable, messy system - that's what you want to create when you're having children, too.