Nicolas Bouvier Quotes

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

Nicolas Bouvier

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• People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

  

  Karl Pilkington
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• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
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• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
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• As far as my journal, I want to share tour life with my fans.

  

  Natalie Gulbis
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• I was the kind of child who worked hard every day with the cows and sheep - I was a very aggressive boy.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
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• And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• Aside from my work, in my everyday private life, I'm not a very adventureous person. I don't look for change.

  

  Namie Amuro
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• Forever, it was just soccer - passion, life, love. Then I got married, and I had to transfer some of my energy. I want to be my best for my country, but I also made a really big promise and choice to be the best in my marriage. That has not always been the easiest thing to manage.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• When I was in university, my dream was to be a coach, like a high school track coach. Not to teach.

  

  Victoria Pratt
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• I am a total sucker for an actor's autobiography/biography. I have probably read most of them.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
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• I studied Judaism a lot. I studied religion in general, and I have never imposed my Judaism on my kids. They are what they want to be. I think... you must care for others. That's the correct religion, I think.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Kids

• A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.

  

  Paul Theroux
  • Life
  • Road
  • Risk

• I think understanding is the way to gain perspective - and therefore can live among those hideous realities. You can live with them.

  

  Alice Sebold
  • Live
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• A creative mindset is in increasingly high demand: employers are vying for workers who are able to dream big and deliver big with the next must-have product. Creative thinking fuels innovation, it leads to new goods and services, creates jobs and delivers substantial economic rewards.

  

  Jim Hunt
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• I was a part of the decision-making in the Pentagon, when I was the undersecretary for intelligence, to start CYBERCOM, both as a sub-unified command and under a dual-hat arrangement. That was never intended to be permanent in any event.

  

  James R. Clapper
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• I'm still learning and trying to become a better actor. I still feel insecurity.

  

  David Bautista
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• Look out for Number One. If you don't, no one else will.

  

  Arnold Rothstein

• My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.

  

  R.Tripp Evans
  • She
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• In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.

  

  George Polya
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• Socrates, whose mother was a midwife, used to say that his art was like the art of the midwife. She does not herself give birth to the child, but she is there to help during its delivery. Similarly, Socrates saw his task as helping people to 'give birth' to correct insight, since real understanding must come from within. . . . Everybody can grasp philosophical truths if they just use their innate reason.

  

  Jostein Gaarder
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  • Birth

• On the average, I don't spend more than 15 minutes in the car - to go to the golf course or the gym. And that's the only time I listen to the radio.

  

  Dweezil Zappa
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• There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced many others, but always similar to them: therefore there are as many species as we have different structures before us today.

  

  Carl Linnaeus
  • Different
  • Today
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• A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

  

  Nicolas Bouvier
  • Reason
  • Journey
  • Prove