"The first duty of every Starfleet officer is to the truth, whether it's scientific truth, or historical truth, or personal truth! It is the guiding principle upon which Starfleet is based! If you can't find it within yourself to stand up and tell the truth about what happened, you don't deserve to wear that uniform!"

I'm living by these words.

So many great lessons I have heard from him, truly a life model.

"I've seen everything" - Patrick Stewart.

Good life advice as well

Idk if I like that line. If you made no mistakes then you chalk-up your loss to bad luck and are not really demotivated so much. You know you did your best nothing to regret so you can easily keep going. When you keep making mistakes and losing because of those it becomes far more demotivating and that's WAY more likely a scenario than the other.

"Why has everything become a something or a whatever?"

- Patrick Stewart breaking character

Yes, that's how it works in science fiction show for teenagers from the 60s.

It's painfully hard to compare that to the real world.

But at least, sci fi viewers can graduate to more serious shows with increasingly complex narratives (B5, bsg, I hear good things about the expense, etc...) then discover the really dystopian shit when they realize they live in it - or decide to become tech entrepreneur to get rich building the dystopia themselves.

But you can't blame the storytellers from trying to tell a better story than the news...

May the kid inside you, who once believed in the "good folks", rear up his metaphorical heads once in a while.

I say this all the time since I got it from the show. RIP The GOAT.

Of course, for Captain Picard life was one of winning relentlessly against impossible odds on a weekly basis.

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