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Jon Krakauer Quotes

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: April 12, 1954

Topics

Humility Me Small Afraid Something

Complex literary works demand an effort from the reader that is becoming harder to justify, given the sink-or-swim pressures to make profitable products for a global marketplace.

Effort Complex Products Becoming

Women get possessive and cranky if they try to cruise with the Tooz.

Women Try Cruise Get Cranky

My brain goes in just one direction. The Future. I don't worry about the present. By the time you talk about the present, it's gone.

Stefano Pessina

Future Time Brain Direction Present

I don't try to worry about sounding like anybody because I know I have my own tone, my own sound. It's just about being honest in a song and trying to relate myself or how to basically break it down as simple as possible for someone to try to understand it. Not being too deep, not being too shallow at the same time.

Time Myself Simple Song Deep Worry

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.

Business People You Follow Head

People are feeling and sensing a return of anti-Semitism - even in Europe, which, seventy years after the Holocaust, is a very scary thing. I think they are feeling that Israel is very isolated and doesn't always get what they see as fair treatment in the European media.

People Think Media Seventy Holocaust

True entrepreneurs have to really forego almost everything; they have to put it all on the line.

Jon Huntsman, Sr.

True Everything Line Almost Really

Oh, well, my first love is comedy or singing and dancing.

Love Love Is Singing Comedy First

Power acquired by violence is only a usurpation, and lasts only as long as the force of him who commands prevails over that of those who obey.

Power Violence Long Him Over Force

I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.

Best Day Job Week Every Day Up

It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.

Work Ignorance Control Present Easy

I am far more comfortable with failure than I ever will be with success.

Success Failure I Am Comfortable Far

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