Expeditions Quotes - Page 2

• Our first responsibility as a leader is to create an attractive dream, to proclaim a destination, communicating it in detail to others who might be interested in joining our expedition.

  Susan Collins

  Leadership, Dream, Responsibility

  Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press

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• With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

  Roald Amundsen

  Adventure, Planning, Sufficient

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• The real work of an expedition begins when you return.

  Louise Boyd

  Real, Return, Real Work

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• The time to prepare for your next expedition is when you have just returned from a successful trip.

  Robert Peary

  Successful, Next, Planning

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• To have some parts flowing free again . . . with deer grazing on its banks . . . ducks and geese raising their young in the backwaters . . . eddies and twists and turns for canoeists . . . and fishing opportunities such as Lewis and Clark enjoyed . . . would be the finest possible tribute to the men of the Expedition, and a priceless gift for our children.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Children, Opportunity, Men

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• What sets a canoeing expedition apart is that it purifies you more rapidly and inescapably than any other. Travel a thousand miles by train and you are a brute; pedal five hundred on a bicycle and you remain basically a bourgeois; paddle a hundred in a canoe and you are already a child of nature.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Children, Paddling, Hundred

  "Exhaustion and Fulfillment: The Ascetic in a Canoe" by Pierre Trudeau, www.canoe.ca. 2000.

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• Shall I pass by and leave you lying there because of the expedition you led against Greece, or shall I set you up again because of your magnanimity and your virtues in other respects?

  Alexander the Great

  Lying, Army, Virtue

  "The age of Alexander: nine Greek lives". Book by Plutarch, 1973.

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• (Was he talking about a polar expedition, or marriage?) -Jorge Men Wanted: For hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honour and recognition in case of success.

  Ernest Shackleton

  Journey, Men, Talking

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• Coastal sailing as long as it is perfectly safe and easy commands no magic. Overseas expeditions are invariably bound up with ceremonies and ritual. Man resorts to magic only where chance and circumstances are not fully controlled by knowledge.

  Bronislaw Malinowski

  Knowledge, Science, Men

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• The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.

  Edmund Hillary

  Play, Important, Roles

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• No one longs for what he or she already has, and yet the accumulated insight of those wise about the spiritual life suggests that the reason so many of us cannot see the red X that marks the spot is because we are standing on it. The treasure we seek requires no lengthy expedition, no expensive equipment, no superior aptitude or special company. All we lack is the willingness to imagine that we already have everything we need. The only thing missing is our consent to be where we are.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Wise, Spiritual, Missing

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• The star of Bethlehem was a star of hope that led the wise men to the fulfillment of their expectations, the success of their expedition. Nothing in this world is more fundamental for success in life than hope, and this star pointed to our only source for true hope: Jesus Christ.

  D. James Kennedy

  Christmas, Wise, Jesus

  "The Book of Christmas Hope". Book by Reed Markham, p. 91, 2011.

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• The search for a scapegoat is the easiest of all hunting expeditions.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Hunting, Accountability, Blame

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• Once I went professionally to an archaeological expedition-and I learnt something there. In the course of an excavation, when something comes up out of the ground, everything is cleared away very carefully all around it. You take away the loose earth, and you scrape here and there with a knife until finally your object is there, all alone, ready to be drawn and photographed with no extraneous matter confusing it. That is what I have been seeking to do-clear away the extraneous matter so that we can see the truth-the naked shining truth.

  Agatha Christie

  Knives, Shining, Confusing

  Agatha Christie (2004). “Poirot in the Orient”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• So my message is in whichever realm, be it going into space or going into the deep sea, you have to balance the yin and yang of caution and boldness, risk aversion and risk taking, fear and fearlessness. No great accomplishment takes place, whether it be a movie or a deep ocean expedition, or a space mission, without a kind of dynamic equipoise between the two. Luck is not a factor. Hope is not a strategy. Fear is not an option.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Sea, Two

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• He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions.

  Thomas Mann

  People, World, Made

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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• I'm not just going to go on these fishing expeditions. I didn't do that with President Obama. We didn't go through this with President [Barack] Obama. I think the world and certainly the American voters understand that Donald Trump has mass holdings. He's worth billions of dollars. He's been very successful in business. And I think the American voters understood that when they voted him in.

  Jason Chaffetz

  Successful, Thinking, Fishing

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

  Tahir Shah

  Together, Firsts, Sticks

  Tahir Shah (2013). “In Search of King Solomon's Mines, paperback edition”, p.236, Lulu.com

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• Mounting an expedition to actualize a Compassionate Commonwealth of all peoples...is the great spiritual challenge of our time.

  Sam Keen

  Spiritual, Peace, Compassion

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• And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers come back, abandoning the expedition; the specimens, the lilies of ambition still spring in their climate, still unpicked; but time, time is all I lacked to find them, as the great collectors before me.

  Gavin Douglas

  Time, Spring, Ambition

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• I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof canoe. It will take a while to find the peaches, so don't expect me back until dinnertime. Stephano, Gustav's replacement, will arrive today by taxi. Please make him feel welcome. As you know, it is only two days until the expedition, so please work very hard today. Your giddy uncle, Monty

  Daniel Handler

  Uncles, Two, Needs

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• How inexplicable it seems. Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hairdresser, a social engagement or a shopping expedition, that time is accepted as inviolable. But if one says: I cannot come because that is my hour to be alone, one is considered rude, egotistical or strange.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Shopping, Rude, Engagement

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”

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• On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

  Tahir Shah

  Travel, Space, Doe

  Tahir Shah (2013). “House of the Tiger King, Dyslexic edition”, p.261, Lulu.com

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• The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.

  Che Guevara

  Mean, Journey, Thinking

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• What have I done thins time?" he paused to ask before continuing with his oral expedition about her body: her husband, the intrepid explorer.

  Gail Carriger

  Husband, Done, Body

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