Impatience asks for the impossible, wants to reach the goal without the means of getting there. The length of the journey has to be borne with, for every moment is necessary.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
Of all the pitfalls in our paths and the tremendous delays and wanderings off the track, I want to say that they are not what they seem to be. I want to say that all that seems like fantastic mistakes are not mistakes, all that seems like error is not error; and it all has to be done. That which seems like a false step is the next step.
You can't get from A to Z by passing up B.
If you want what's in the package you should at least know how to get the string off, is what I say.
I learn by going where I have to go.
If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Don't bother about the complicated details. The issue is hot.
Urging his congressional colleagues to campaign on the nuclear freeze issue:
Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
The simplest consequence of walking on crutches is that you walk slower. Every step must be a necessary one. When you hurry, you get where you're going, but you get there alone. When you go slow, you get where you're going, but you get there with a community you've built along the way.
Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Many things are necessary if you want to win games.
There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.
Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.
I do know that no matter what, I know within myself that if I have to work at McDonald's, I will do what it takes to provide for my kids, period.