"I was asked to give a speech on the Everest swim, and during the Everest swim, I changed. I changed as a person, I honestly did. That mountain changed me, and I gave a speech about it for nine minutes."

-- Lewis Pugh

#Giving Quotes #Swim Quotes #Mountain Quotes

“I didn't jump a lot of trees because I didn't like heights. I liked getting a mirror and walking around with it facing the sky. I'd imagine I was walking in the tops of the trees and falling into the sky, or walking up the stairs whilst going down.”

Source : Interview with Hector de la Manzana, believermag.com. March 1, 2003.
“I'm damn near 37 years old, and I'm jumping up and down on the bed like my 10-year-old. I was a wild man”
“The biggest liar in the world is They Say.”
“Knowledge is power. Information is power. The secreting or hoarding of knowledge or information may be an act of tyranny camouflaged as humility.”
“I feel very protected when I see a movie. That's why I like making violent movies or radical movies.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“All the alleged key causes of SOE [State-Owned Enterprise] inefficiency the principal-agent problem, the free-rider problem and the soft budget constraint are, while real, not unique to state-owned enterprises. Large private-sector firms with dispersed ownership also suffer from the principal-agent problem and the free-rider problem. So, in these two areas, forms of ownership do matter, but the critical divide is not between state and private ownership it is between concentrated and dispersed ownerships.”
“The modern composer is a madman who persists in manufacturing an article which nobody wants.”

Source : 1951 I Am a Composer.
“I have a lot of plants and fish and a pet lizard and Venus flytraps. I have a whole ecosystem in my room, like a running waterfall and different lights and sensors set on digital timers.”

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