“When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.”
“If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.”
Variant: Zedd used to tell me that if the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way." - Richard
But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
Interview with Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio (2 May 2002)
2000s
“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
Source: Crime and Punishment (Zločin a trest)
“If you're going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
Source: On Being Blonde (2004), p. 79
The Last Lecture (2008)
Variant: And he put his arm around my shoulders and we went for a little walk and he said, Randy, it’s such a shame that people perceive you as so arrogant. Because it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish in life. What a hell of a way to word “you’re being a jerk.” [laughter] Right? He doesn’t say you’re a jerk. He says people are perceiving you this way and he says the downside is it’s going to limit what you’re going to be able to accomplish.
