"The truth is that adversity is a part of most days. Whether you are ultimately weakened or strengthened by each event, or the accumulation of events, will depend on you first mastering the ability to Take It On!"

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Source : Erik Weihenmayer, Paul Stoltz (2012). “The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles into Everyday Greatness”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

Erik Weihenmayer

#Adversity Quotes #Events Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I'm guessing I'm your fake girlfriend? B. J. Asks, sighing. It's a miracle that he figured it out. He's not usually the best with things that aren't spelled out for him. Of course, sweetie, I say. I try not to think about the fact that I'm talking to B. J. Like we're in love. B. J. Is six-foot-four and 220 pounds. Not someone you want to think about being intimate with.”
“Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.”
“I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.”
“If you know where it's going, it's not worth doing.”

Source : "Frank Gehry's first London building to be built next to Battersea power station" by Oliver Wainwright, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2013.
“We were put to Dickens as children but it never quite took. That unremitting humanity soon had me cheesed off.”
“I had to appreciate other things about music, like the writing and the cadence and dealing with producers. I became a student. I wanted to learn the actual idea of what this industry was before I could creatively speak a lot of the things that I wanted to speak.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“I'd play in Afghanistan if they wanted me to!”
“Just the way you might look at a painting and see the painting, and the painting is outside you, so this immaterial intellect would see the forms and behold them, as if they were standing before it. And Plotinus said that that can't be right because it falls prey to sceptical objections.”

Source : Source: www.abc.net.au

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