"How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?"

-- Anatoli Boukreev

#Adventure Quotes #Years Quotes #Levels Quotes

“No, the United States does not target civilians.”
“It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.”
“But baseball was different... You stood and waited and tried to still your mind. When your moment came, you had to be ready, because if you f****d up, everyone would know whose fault it was. What other sport not only kept a stat as cruel as the error, but posted it on the scoreboard for everyone to see? ... You could only try so hard not to try too hard before you were right back around to trying too hard. And trying hard, as everyone told him, was wrong, all wrong.”
“I think the moment that I'm very proud of is building a business without using animals. And, hopefully, changing people's perception of how you can do luxury fashion.”

Source : Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 04, 2012.
“There's more roles now to fill since Trump's in. There's this refusal of power. I think progressives are actually literally uncomfortable with the exercise of power, because of what you learn. When you're too educated you understand the total disconnect of the exercise of power.”

Source : Source: motherboard.vice.com
“Being a chef would be too much hard work.”
“Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.”

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