The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
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Robert Kurson
Notes
…man is not so inclined to give up when he sees in panoramas.
“A lot of the stuff you do out there, you’re going to have to live with all the way down the line. You’ll have to make decisions out there. When that happens, you have to ask yourself, ‘Where do I want to be in ten years, twenty years? How will I want to feel about this decision when I’m an old man?’ That’s the question for making important decisions.”
If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it.
If you follow in another’s footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving.
Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever.
Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.
It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.
The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn’t care anymore, who has said, “I’m already dead—the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself,” is the most formidable force in the world.
The worst possible decision is to give up.
“Always answer the first problem immediately and fully, or you’re fucking dead.”