One of the quotes in each set of three below is from Harry, the Duke of Sussex. Another is from former WeWork chief brand-and-impact officer (and all-around annoyance) Rebekah Neumann. The third is from … well, from all over the place.
Match them up correctly, and if you get them all right, we promise not to send you to the WeGrow School.
Women
1. “A big part of being a woman is to help men manifest their calling in life.”
2. “Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman.”
3. “Real men treat women with dignity and give them the respect they deserve.”
a. Friedrich Nietzsche
b. Rebekah Neumann
c. The Duke of Sussex
Answers: 1, b; 2, a; 3, c
Life
1. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”
2. “Every single bad thing that happens … actually can be good.”
3. “There is no better teacher than the planet itself.”
a. Søren Kierkegaard
b. The Duke of Sussex
c. Rebekah Neumann
Answers: 1, a; 2, b; 3, c
Brains
1. “The youthful brain should in general not be burdened with things ninety-five percent of which it cannot use and hence forgets again.”
2. “Every human is gifted and talented.”
3. “I don’t think that we should be bringing children into the world unless we’re going to make that commitment to make it better for them. We cannot steal your future.”
a. Rebekah Neumann
b. Adolf Hitler
c. The Duke of Sussex
Answers: 1, b; 2, a; 3, c
Education
1. “Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
2. “Outer work becomes so much easier when you get to grips with the inner work.”
3. “In my book, there’s no reason why children in elementary schools can’t be launching their own businesses.”
a. The Duke of Sussex
b. Confucius
c. Rebekah Neumann
Answers: 1, b; 2, a; 3, c
Balance
1. “We don’t have a line at all between work and life. It’s not even a blurred line. There is no line.”
2. “In fact, it is a sign that with self-awareness comes the need for change.”
3. “The best work is not what is most difficult for you; it is what you do best.”
a. Jean-Paul Sartre
b. The Duke of Sussex
c. Rebekah Neumann
Answers: 1, c; 2, b; 3, a
Happiness
1. “I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
2. “Life is perfectly constructed for us, if we kind of take the cues, become our best and most fulfilled self.”
3. “I’m being schooled by the universe. There is something for me to learn.”
a. Rebekah Neumann
b. Franz Kafka
c. The Duke of Sussex
Answers: 1, b; 2, a; 3, c
Humility
1. “If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.”
2. “So do not ever go into ego, and do not ever think that you’re great because great things are happening.”
3. “What can we learn from nature? People always say, There is nature, then there is us. But we are part of it—we are nature.”
a. The Duke of Sussex
b. Rebekah Neumann
c. Mother Teresa
Answers: 1, c; 2, b; 3, a
Ted Heller writes frequently for Air Mail and is the author of the novel Pocket Kings
