Junko Tabei famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Technique and ability alone do not get you to the top; it is the willpower that is the most important. This willpower you cannot buy with money or be given by othersit rises from your heart.
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I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.
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There was never a question in my mind that I wanted to climb that mountain, no matter what other people said,
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Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream
-- Junko Tabei
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Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.
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Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies, But keep your fancy free.
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Your career, interests and relationships are important, but they are only important insofar as they lead you toward a deeper understanding of yourself. Otherwise, they are irrelevant.
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When the news wants to tell you something is important, they put dramatic theme music behind it. They scare you into watching the story.
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I think it's really important to live in the moment.
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Once you get the right image the details aren't that important.
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Ballet technique never becomes easy, it becomes possible
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Techniques are not the most difficult to teach. The attitudes chefs take are much more important.
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So I used formal techniques to make the film more perceptive emotionally.
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What surprises me most in architecture, as in other techniques, is that a project has one life in its built state but another in its written or drawn state.
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