Agency

“If you understand yourself [from the outside] too well, you paralyse yourself.”

“The task must be done and can be done.”

“Liberty and love / These two I must have.”

“You cannot wait for dreams, you have to work.”

“Dacă jurnalistul este liber astăzi, este atât de liber cât vrea să fie.”

“努力すれば報われるという保証はないが、努力しないで報われるということは絶対にありえない”

“You can’t stop me from singing because that’s my life, that’s what makes me tick. Without singing I will die.”

“A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

“You write your life story by the choices you make.”

“My impatience with waiting for life to happen.”

“I did what I liked and refused what I didn't like. That's all.”

“Optimal experience is something that we make happen.”

“The idea of writing Mary Prince’s history was first suggested by herself.”

“I didn’t want to have success on somebody else's terms. Everything I wanted to do, I wanted to own it. I wanted it to be mine.”

“He was much more of an interior person who had to will himself in some ways to be a public person.”

“My accomplishment is undeniable proof that no matter who you are and where you are from, you can achieve anything that you set your mind to.”

“We have actually become tools of the smartphone.”

“I beat the odds.”