Leah Reich from one of my favourite essays on Medium:
… you can learn a lot from anything, if you’re paying attention. Because you can learn a lot from succeeding, too. And because it’s much easier to think losing is positive when you have victories to carry you onward.
Adam Gopnik in Paris to the Moon:
There are two kinds of travelers. There is the kind who goes to see what there is to see and sees it, and the kind who has an image in his head and goes out to accomplish it.