Matt Lillywhite

“I’m haunted by my future goals, not my past failures. I’m haunted by what I may still become. I’m haunted by my own continued thirst for evolution.”
― David Goggins, Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within

“The bird strike hadn’t only cost Kaz an eye. Without binocular vision, he’d lost his medical as both a test pilot and an astronaut selectee who’d been assigned to fly on MOL, the military’s planned Manned Orbiting Laboratory spy space station. His work and dreams had disappeared in a bloody flurry of feathers.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“All flying machines were essentially the same; you just had to figure out how to get them started and how they wanted to kill you.”
― Chris Hadfield, The Apollo Murders

“Only you know what it will look like to train in your art like a samurai, an Olympic athlete, a master in pursuit of excellence. Only you will know what you need to practice from morning until night, what to repeat ten thousand times. It won't be easy, but in that burden is also freedom and confidence. The pleasure of the flow state. The rhythm of second nature. The quiet calmness of knowing that, from the practice, you'll know exactly what to do when it counts .... the pride and the dependability of doing it too.”
― Ryan Holiday, Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control