Bill Bryson Quotes About Achievement

• Si este libro tiene una lección, es que tenemos mucha suerte de estar aquí, y con "nosotros" me refiero a todos los seres vivos. Alcanzar cualquier tipo de vida en este universo nuestro parece ser todo un logro. Como humanos somos doblemente afortunados, por supuesto: No sólo disfrutamos del privilegio de la existencia, sino también de la singular capacidad de apreciarla e incluso, de múltiples maneras, de mejorarla. Es un talento que apenas hemos empezado a comprender.

  Bill Bryson

  Book, Mean, Appreciate

  Bill Bryson (2010). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.573, Random House

• El verdadero logro de Colón fue cruzar el océano con éxito en ambas direcciones. Aunque era un marino bastante consumado, no era muy bueno en muchas otras cosas, especialmente en geografía, la habilidad que parecería más vital en un explorador.

  Bill Bryson

  Real, Ocean, Discovery

  Bill Bryson (2010). “At Home: A Short History of Private Life”, p.254, Random House

• It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Worst Nightmares, Achievement, May

  Bill Bryson (2014). “A Short History of Nearly Everything”, p.435, Lulu Press, Inc

• If you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to monitor where it is going and keep a record of where it has been, you wouldn't choose human beings for the job. But here's an extrememly salient point: we have been chosen, by fate or Providence or whatever you wish to call it. As far as we can tell, we are the best there is. We may be all there is. It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

  Bill Bryson

  Lonely, Jobs, Fate

  "Bill Bryson’s ‘Really Short History of Nearly Everything’ Is The Dream Gift Book For Every Curious Kid" by Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

• I hadn't realized quite how extraordinary Charles Lindbergh's achievement was in flying the Atlantic alone. He had never flown over open water before, but he flew straight to Dingle Bay in Ireland and then on to Paris, exactly as planned.

  Bill Bryson

  Paris, Water, Achievement

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