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Edmund Hillary

"While on top of Everest, I looked across the valley towards the great peak Makalu and mentally worked out a route about how it could be climbed. It showed me that even though I was standing on top of the world, it wasn't the end of everything. I was still looking beyond to other interesting challenges."

Source : Foreword to "Peak Performance: Business Lessons from the World's Top Sports Organizations" by Clive Gibson, Mike Pratt, Kevin Roberts and Ed Weymes, 2000.

Edmund Hillary

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“Until they hired a Latina to write for Laurel [in How to Get Away with Murder], I was scared that she was going to fall into stereotypes.”

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“Diebenkorn was a very good critic, a very tough critic, tough on himself, tough on others. He expected the finest.”
“I should be writing a poem every morning but I'm not.”
“The only honest art form is laughter, comedy. You can't fake it...”
“There's always gonna be another mountain, I'm always gonna wanna make it move, Always gonna be a uphill battle, Sometimes I'm gonna have to lose, Ain't about how fast I get there, Ain't about what's waiting on the other side, It's the climb”
“As for the Jewish-American question, what's funny is that I grew up in India, and the Jewish-American comparison is better for second-generation Asians. I'm sure there's something about globalization that has globalized our neuroses, so that I, growing up in India, somehow turned out very similar to you. It's a weird thing, when you think about it, but everyone now is exposed to a mainstream white American world, wherever you are. And so there's this need to belong or measure yourself up to that white world, which leads to all sorts of straining.”

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“Sometimes luck is with you, and sometimes not, but the important thing is to take the dare. Those who climb mountains or raft rivers understand this.”
“After my death, I want to be remembered as Africa's greatest industrialist.”

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