• Question: what is your favourite quote

    Asked by GRACE.A to Aoife, Diarmuid, Frances, Katie, Sergio, Sudhin on 12 Nov 2019.
    • Photo: Aoife Campbell

      Aoife Campbell answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      ‘You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results’ . It’s a quote from a book called Atomic Habits by James Clear.

      It’s all about making small changes each day that will have a big impact on your life in the future

    • Photo: Diarmuid Kenny

      Diarmuid Kenny answered on 12 Nov 2019:

      My mum used to always say “laugh and the world will laugh with you, weep and you weep all alone”. Its something I always think about those times that I am feeling sorry for myself.

      I also love the poem “if” by Rudyard Kipling. Specifically the line

      “If you can make one heap of all your winnings
      And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
      And lose, and start again at your beginnings
      And never breathe a word about your loss”

      A lot of time in science you will need to start again….and again

    • Photo: Katie Fala

      Katie Fala answered on 12 Nov 2019: last edited 12 Nov 2019 12:51 pm

      Either ‘Níl Aon Tinteán Mar Do Thinteán Féin’ (old Irish saying, basically there’s no place like home, used in many an essay of mine as Gaeilge in secondary) or a great Italian one loosely translated as ‘Houseguests are like fish – after 3 days they start to smell bad’. Not super inspirational – sorry!

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