"If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot."

-- Chris Bonington

#Climbing Quotes #People Quotes #Littles Quotes

“Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.”
“If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation.”
“I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.”
“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.”
“When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.”

Source : Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.12, Penguin
“I'm working on a new pitch. It's called a strike.”
“New Yorkers are nice about giving you street directions; in fact, they seem quite proud of knowing where they are themselves.”
“I avoid the carwash when I think it might rain anytime in the near future, which means I drive around the majority of the time in a pollen and bird poop covered car. This presents a stand off between Neat Freakshow and Practical Pennypincher, and Neat Freak usually triumphs. And then it rains.”

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