Ed Viesturs Quotes

It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: “Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you don’t.

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• I think there's more pressure to stand out in a way that is measurable externally. The fame culture is definitely way worse and weirder than it was when we were in high school.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • School
  • High
  • Culture

• People love to have lived a great story, but few people like the work it takes to make it happen.

  

  Donald Miller
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Happy
  • Chance
  • Treat

• Men who not religious or artists are fools.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Men
  • Artists
  • Fools

• The act of love is a confession.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Confession
  • Act Of Love

• In response to Java Anybody who thinks a little 9,000-line program that's distributed free and can be cloned by anyone is going to affect anything we do at Microsoft has his head screwed on wrong.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Free
  • Program
  • Microsoft

• I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.

  

  Sung Hi Lee
  • Games
  • Word
  • Homebody

• The modern infrastructures that exists in the world all contribute to the advancement of human rights and democracy.

  

  Akbar Ganji
  • Democracy
  • Advancement
  • Infrastructures

• We know certainly that our God calls us to a holy life. We know that he gives us every grace, every abundant grace; and though we are so weak of ourselves, this grace is able to carry us through every obstacle and difficulty.

  

  Elizabeth Ann Seton
  • God
  • Grace
  • Holy Life

• As a science-fiction writer, I feel my responsibility is to look ahead and see the dangers of what might happen and try to warn people of the potential pitfalls.

  

  Nick Sagan
  • Writer
  • Dangers
  • Warn

• We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.

  

  Paul Eluard
  • Child
  • Young
  • Big

• Love, marriage, divorce, infidelity... life was the same here as anywhere else, wasn't? She realized now wrong she'd been; the pali wasn't a headstone and Kalaupapa wasn't a grave. It was a community like any other, bound by ties deeper than most, and people here went to their deaths as people did anywhere: with great reluctance, dragging the messy jumble of their lives behind them.

  

  Alan Brennert
  • Life
  • Love
  • Marriage

• Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Nature
  • Lost
  • Repeats

• It has been argued that dinosaurs did not die out, but just evolved wings and flew away. At a certain level, this reasoning is sound.... Birds, as a group, did descend from dinosaurs and ... all 8,600 species of birds living today carry some inheritance from their reptilian ancestors.

  

  David M. Raup
  • Today
  • Bird
  • Certain

• I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

  

  Jourdan Dunn
  • Money
  • Support
  • Disease

• It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: “Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, you don’t.

  

  Ed Viesturs
  • Repeats
  • Reminds
  • Mountaineering