Ernest Shackleton Quotes

I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

Ernest Shackleton

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• Death
• Failure
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• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam - in my steam shower. I find it's very healing, more than just your typical 'tea and honey.'

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Sleep
  • Tea
  • Healing

• Find something that you love to do, and find a place that you really like to do it in. I found something I loved to do. I'm a mechanical engineer by training, and I loved it. I still do. My son is a nuclear engineer at MIT, a junior, and I get the same vibe from him. Your work has to be compelling. You spend a lot of time doing it.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Time
  • Work
  • Like

• My parents were amazing and wonderful, but there was a lot of pressure to do my best and in every way possible.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Parents
  • Amazing
  • Best

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I'd like to be curvier.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Like

• I was 18 when I did 'The Amanda Show,' and I was 19 when I did 'MadTV,' and I was in way over my head. I was just sort of a goof who could do impressions of WB stars - speaking of the Dawson Van Der Beek era - and it was overwhelming. I don't think I've learned more faster in my life than when I worked on 'MadTV.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stars

• When I was in Denver, guys came into the team, and we started at a pretty high level.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • High
  • Pretty
  • Team

• I asked each one of them to make out with me and their reactions varied from excitable to horrified.

  

  Rachel Perry
  • Reactions
  • Varied
  • Horrified

• Ambition! powerful source of good and ill!

  

  Edward Young
  • Good
  • Powerful
  • Ambition

• Born in the garret, in the kitchen bred.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Kitchen

• The problem is, in software design, often the consequences of your decisions don't become apparent for years.

  

  Kent Beck
  • Design

• God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.

  

  Anna Pavlova
  • Work
  • God

• It's a great thing to live in a digital age. It's convenient; it's fast.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Great
  • Live
  • Age

• I've always been a ravenous consumer of opinion. When I was in my high school library and my college library, I would read 'National Review' and I would read 'The Nation' and I would read 'The American Spectator' and I would read 'Mother Jones.'

  

  Jake Tapper
  • School
  • American
  • Mother

• The joy I get from work is just huge.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
  • Joy

• That's a traditional Samoan dance. I was lucky that I was able to fly my cousins, who are professional dancers, up from Hawaii and they were able to be in the movie with me. We had a great time.

  

  Dwayne Johnson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• My dad has spent 20 years of his life working in child protection and writing policy for organisations across Australia in order to recognise and safeguard against abuse.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Dad

• When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set.

  

  Slash Guns N' Roses
  • Writing
  • Drum
  • Full Room

• Usually, what I recommend to entrepreneurs is to focus on telling the problem first, about the customer or the person who has that problem.

  

  Dave McClure
  • Focus

• And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Life
  • Dog
  • Fool

• You're the heroine of your own life!! So don't hold back!!

  

  Bisco Hatori
  • Life
  • Heroine
  • Hold Back

• I chose life over death for myself and my friends... I believe it is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.

  

  Ernest Shackleton
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Death