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Colin Fletcher

"Frankly, I fail to see how going for a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains can be judged less real than spending six months working eight hours a day, five days a week, in order to earn enough money to be able to come back to a comfortable home in the evening and sit in front of a TV screen and watch the two-dimensional image of some guy talking about a book he has written on a six-month, thousand-mile walk through deserts and mountains."

Source : Colin Fletcher, Clem L. Rawlins (2002). “The Complete Walker IV”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

Colin Fletcher

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“I think I bit off more than I could chew, I thought the marathon would be easier. For the level of condition that I have now, that was without a doubt the hardest physical thing I have ever done.”
“Life is more important than art - quantity is only important in that the amount of activity is greater not the number of works.”
“To squander a fortune in public money, billions and billions, stubbornly carrying on with a Concorde we can only sell to ourselves.”
“The manager is to be blamed who distributes parts to his players which they are unable to act.”
“Luck is a combination of confidence and getting the breaks.”

Source : Christy Mathewson, John Neville Wheeler (1994). “Pitching in a Pinch, Or, Baseball from the Inside”, p.233, U of Nebraska Press
“By the time we get to the 2040s, we'll be able to multiply human intelligence a billionfold. That will be a profound change that's singular in nature. Computers are going to keep getting smaller and smaller. Ultimately, they will go inside our bodies and brains and make us healthier, make us smarter.”
“To remember a successful salad is generally to remember a successful dinner; at all events, the perfect dinner necessarily includes the perfect salad.”
“The most important thing I learned [...] was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.”

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