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I think this quote means that a true friends are always there for each other. A true friend is there to make your day better and lift you up when you feel down. Kindness is friendship. Friendship is being the water in someone’s pool. Friendship is being the positive part of someone’s day. If you are kind, people will consider you a friend. That is the importance of friendship, and that is what I think this quote is meant to mean.

I think this quote means that the greatest rewards for hard work come from hard work done with a team. Last year in hockey, my team and I almost won the state tournament, and we played surprisingly well against the toughest team in the state at our level. One of us alone could not have done that. If you work with a team, you can achieve your goals and enjoy the rewards. Once Aesop said “United we stand, divided we fall.” He said that because unity is strength and if we work together, we can achieve anything.

I think this quote means that when life offers you a chance to achieve a goal, you have to believe in yourself and go for it. If you really want something, you should work hard to achieve it because it is worth working hard for. When I got cut from the hockey teams I wanted to play for and got put on a B team, I kept working hard and life gave me a chance to make a better team. I worked hard and believed in myself and eventually got put on that team. Now I play for a good team that I am happy to be on and can improve my skills on. When life offers you the chance to go for it, take that chance and use it. That is what I think this quote means.

In my opinion, this quote means that even if you figure out how to do something, there’s a way to do it better. For example, Ernő Rubik invented the Rubik’s Cube in 1974. It was slow, crusty, hard to turn, and hard to solve. Now people have innovated the Rubik’s Cube and made it fast, smooth, harder to break, and they came up with methods and algorithms to solve it. Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. Now, we use lights in our everyday life, and people have made them last longer and more powerful. There’s always a superior method to do things, and all we have to do is find it.

I feel this quote means that curiosity is the root of all other skill people can develop in their lives. Some people think that knowledge is important, but someone would not gain knowledge without the curiosity to learn it. Some people might think that being good at a sport is useful, but how would anyone gain skill at the sport without the curiosity to learn how to achieve that goal? How would we have learned to solve puzzles without the desire to try them out and learn how? Would we have discovered physics? Would we have innovated at all? Maybe, if curiosity was not one of a human being’s qualities, we would not have advanced from the earliest days of mankind. That is why curiosity is the most important quality.