Bear Grylls Quotes

The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

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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

• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • World
  • Wonder

• I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Study

• The rehearsal is where it all happens for an actor.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Actor
  • Where
  • Rehearsal

• I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.

  

  Jackson Brundage
  • Kind
  • Basketball
  • Pro

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• I don't really feel McCain. It ain't just because Barack is black; he can make change. Just like Bush equals recession, Barack equals progression.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Black
  • Change
  • Feel

• You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Great
  • Important
  • Fun

• Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

  

  Wayne Gretzky
  • Success
  • Happiness
  • Common

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• When there was a fight in school, because I was the tall one, the teachers would say, 'I know you were there. I could see you.'

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • School
  • Know
  • Fight

• You know, we've got to this place, where you go to a movie for one particular surgical fix. So, it's like, I want the pulse-pounding action, or the insane falling-off-my-seat comedy, or the devastating, heart-breaking drama.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Heart
  • Movie
  • Want

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I was once an extra in a Bruce Springsteen video where they did a live performance video at Tramps. I forget the name of the song.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Live
  • Song
  • Name

• The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Believe
  • Truth

• I like the map feature on the iPhone that tells me where I am, because I travel a lot.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Travel
  • Map
  • iPhone

• I try to stay out of the public eye as much as possible because I want people to be able to watch my films and not be distracted.

  

  Evan Rachel Wood
  • Films
  • Watch
  • Public Eye

• I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Past
  • Change
  • Peace

• The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Man
  • Wisdom
  • Rules

• Our social and economic statistics are telling us what we already know in our hearts: we have created a world that works for only a few. To change this, we must learn to act toward each other and our environment in profoundly different ways.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Different
  • Change

• The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • People
  • Survival

• The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Change
  • Survival
  • Rules