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Ann Bancroft Quotes

I think we all strive to push ourselves, to overcome our struggles. And when we do, we get to know ourselves better.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: explorer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 29, 1955

Topics

Think Better Push Know Strive Get

You can show up at Everest having never really climbed before, because it's like hiking, basically. You can't show up on Meru and start up the thing unless you have years and years of experience. Climbing and spending time on the mountains is really the only way you can train.

Time Experience Mountains Start You

It is very difficult for middle-aged, institutionalised males who have done so well out of subsidy - and, fair play, given much back - to realise that there is a time to be a well-heeled revolutionary.

Time Back Play Done Fair Difficult

Universal background checks work. You keep the guns out of the hands of dangerous people. That shouldn't be partisan - that should be something we can all agree to, but it became this huge battle and, you know, really, really a challenge.

John Hickenlooper

Work Challenge People Battle Hands

Always speak politely to an enraged Dragon.

Speak Always Dragon Enraged Politely

I often begin movies with music in my head; it's a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I don't like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures.

Music Me Sweet Important Movies

No one has ever drowned in sweat.

Sweat Ever Drowned

The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.

You Crisis Things Just Mid-Life

I myself downloaded and watched 'The Wire,' 'Breaking Bad,' 'Downton Abbey,' 'Mad Men' and 'The Walking Dead' on my iPad while walking on a treadmill. I never turned a TV on once. I never inserted a DVD.

Jay Chandrasekhar

Myself Men Walking Bad Mad Never

Ultimately, words are only words, and its only the music that stands by itself.

Music Words Only Itself Stands

I developed this fantasy world. I found that that was much more fun and more interesting and exciting than real life was to me. Then, once I got the guitar going when I was a teenager, I set sail for the direction I've been in my whole life.

Life Fun Sail Me World Direction

I think the truest things come from silence, but everything's always so clogged up with noise. If everything falls away, and you can truly listen to someone, giving them yourself and generosity, you can truly lose yourself in what they're saying. Like, not impose your ideas on what they're saying, but really tune into them.

Silence Yourself Generosity Ideas

Leaving 'NCIS' was not planned, so there is no plan. If I were panicking now, it would defeat the purpose.

Purpose Plan Defeat Now Leaving

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