"We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too."
- JFK, September 12, 1962
Americans walked on the moon a bit less than 7 years later.
I believe that feat was directly attributable to JFK's words on that September day.
I know that the concept of doing something because it is hard is one that was slow for me to internalize, but ultimately accounts for some of the things I have done.
I loved those words.
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