Amby Burfoot Quotes

I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

Amby Burfoot

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• To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Single
  • Prayer

• The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.

  

  Otto Schily
  • World
  • Feel
  • Hatred

• My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Happy

• I did a lot of things as a Muslim that I am sorry for now.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Sorry
  • Muslim

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• When I was about 13, I met the coolest, chicest young woman I had ever seen. She was a neighbor of mine who became a fashion designer and had a small design studio. She taught me so many things about style and fashion. I had always loved making things, so when she told me about her career in fashion, I knew I had found my path.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Career
  • Fashion
  • Style

• The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble. They can never be solved but only outgrown.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Important
  • Problems

• We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Want
  • Underestimate

• Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame. The fault lies not with the individual but with the system, and that system is Richard Nixon.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Political
  • Single
  • Lies

• I consider myself very lucky, essentially - I was put into a pop group even though my musical taste was very niche before.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Myself
  • Lucky
  • Taste

• Often women are pitted against each other for an easy joke, so they fight or steal each other's boyfriends. That's not really true to life.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Life
  • Women
  • True

• I am a lifelong Democrat.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Democrat
  • Lifelong

• I don't like music docs, usually. There's nothing to really say. What can you say about music? Normally, you can't say too much. There are a few really good ones, but the majorities are boring, I think.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Good
  • Music
  • Think

• For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • People
  • Politics
  • Place

• I have enough energy to insist on saying what I think.

  

  Tatyana Tolstaya
  • Think
  • Energy
  • Saying

• I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent person. I'd like to remain like that.

  

  Naguib Sawiris
  • Know
  • Party
  • Independent

• I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Done
  • Think
  • Language

• Basketball is my favorite sport, and I'm also a very passionate football fan.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Football
  • Basketball

• You can say, "Well, I have a question," and someone will say, "Oh, so you hate America." And it has nothing to do with the discussion at all.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • America
  • Hate
  • Wells

• To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just as we do, suffers as we do, thinks with us, loves with us, and, above all, sins with us.

  

  Emma Orczy
  • Feeling
  • Woman
  • For Him

• The only time we can fail is if we quit. Most perceived failures are only stepping stones being small problems encountered along the path to a goal. Obstacles are opportunities for growth, therefore, encourage and embrace them.

  

  Arthur Frederick Saunders
  • Goal
  • Obstacles
  • Failures

• Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.

  

  Adam Ostrow
  • Technology
  • Day
  • Learning

• I'd love to write with some people from the U.K., like Ed Sheeran, Emeli Sande... there's a very long list.

  

  Fleur East
  • People
  • Like
  • Write

• I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

  

  Amby Burfoot
  • Goal
  • Feels
  • Challenges