Adventure Quotes - Page 23

• The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.

  James Altucher

  Moving, Skills, Ideas

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• I can find almost anything funny, thank God, so you search for the black, lacy slip that encases the corpse. You know, shift the angle. God may take away, but he often leaves you with a terrific opening line for the next adventure. I would suggest taking it. Move on; change the angle; look at it in a different way tomorrow.

  Tennessee Williams

  Moving, Black, Thank God

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• Intelligence is attractive, but so is life experience. You can't amass it just by reading a ton of books. But you can live a lot of life in a short amount of time. Travel. Talk to everyone. Collect adventures, and use them to understand the world. That's how you learn to treat people well. And that's sexy.

  Nicole Lapin

  Sexy, Book, Reading

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Many of us have caught a glimpse of our life's greatness - a grander vision that calls us to release our false 'security' and re-engage life. We begin to see life as a heart-beating, truth-telling, sweat-pouring, straight-from-the-gut adventure that makes us, and everyone around us, feel fully alive.

  Jim Warner

  Heart, Greatness, Sweat

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• I, for one, am ready for a lot more adventure and a lot less nothing.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Ready

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• Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Spirit, Life Is, Accepting

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• Life means opportunity, and the thing men call death is the last wonderful, beautiful adventure.

  Alice Foote MacDougall

  Beautiful, Death, Mean

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• The philharmonic became such a journey and adventure in my life, and a deeply satisfying thing.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Journey, Satisfying

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It could truly be the case that Vladimir Putin has miscalculated in the long term with his adventure in Syria.

  Garry Kasparov

  Long, Putin, Cases

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

  Jean Dujardin

  Thinking, Film

  "'The Artist's Jean Dujardin On His Doubts About The Black-And-White Silent Film And The Joy Of Taking Risks". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Planning, Cases

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• The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

  Tessa Jowell

  Children, Growing Up, Boys

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• We must never forget that today's legendary achievements-awesome as they may seem-were yesterday's risky adventures. Courage is not the capacity never to be afraid; as Karl Barth reminds us, "Courage is fear that has said its prayers."

  John Claypool

  Courage, Prayer, Yesterday

  John Claypool (1983). “The light within you”, W Publishing Group

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• Adventure is the essence of life.

  Dick Rutan

  Essence, Essence Of Life

  "U.S. balloonists forced down shortly after launch". www.cnn.com. January 9, 1998.

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• How many may a man of diffusive conversation count among his acquaintances, whose lives have been signalized by numberless escapes; who never cross the river but in a storm, or take a journey into the country without more adventures than befel the knights-errant of ancient times in pathless forests or enchanted castles! How many must he know, to whom portents and prodigies are of daily occurrence; and for whom nature is hourly working wonders invisible to every other eye, only to supply them with subjects of conversation?

  Samuel Johnson

  Country, Eye, Journey

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.”, p.23

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• I have never seen a film being as influenced by the incidents during its making as Highway. The adventures of our north Indian road journey has many stories to tell.

  Imtiaz Ali

  Journey, Stories, Film

  "Highway Diaries: Songs of the Kashmir valley echo in ‘Highway’" by Stacey Yount, bollyspice.com. December 9, 2013.

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• It will be said that the joy of mental adventure must be rare, that there are few who can appreciate it, and that ordinary education can take no account of so aristocratic a good. I do not believe this. The joy of mental adventure is far commoner in the young than in grown men and women. ...It is rare in later life because everything is done to kill it during education.

  Bertrand Russell

  Education, Believe, Men

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “Why Men Fight: A Method of Abolishing the International Duel”, p.95, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The adventure of the sun is the great natural drama by which we live, and not to have joy in it and awe of it, not to share in it, is to close a dull door on nature's sustaining and poetic spirit.

  Henry Beston

  Drama, Doors, Joy

  Henry Beston, Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (2001). “The Best of Beston: A Selection from the Natural World of Henry Beston from Cape Cod to the St. Lawrence”, p.25, David R. Godine Publisher

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• What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

  Louis L'Amour

  Home, People, Mind

  Louis L'Amour (2008). “Education of a Wandering Man”, p.80, Bantam

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• It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.

  William McFee

  Romantic, Vision, Afar

  William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”

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• Without adventure all civilization is full of decay. Adventure rarely reaches its predetermined end. Columbus never reached China.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Civilization, Decay, Columbus

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• The worth of men consists in their liability to persuasion. They can persuade and can be persuaded by the disclosure of alternatives, the better and the worse. Civilization is the maintenance of social order, by its own inherent persuasiveness as embodying the nobler alternative. The recourse to force, however, unavoidable, is a disclosure of the failure of civilization, either in the general society or in a remnant of individuals. Thus in a live civilization there is always an element of unrest.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Mean, Men, Ideas

  "Adventures of Ideas".

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• I like a man who has a great curiosity and sense of adventure because that's the way I am. He has to have a willingness to be vulnerable and a willingness to see where the road takes us. And I want a man who is romantic.

  Mary Frann

  Men, Curiosity, Want

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• Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

  Bernard Malamud

  Stars, Moon, Men

  Bernard Malamud (2014). “The Fixer”, p.144, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.

  Edna Ferber

  Baghdad, Happens, Knows

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