Jon Krakauer Quotes

When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.

Jon Krakauer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Time means a great deal to every runner. It means everything to me, because most days miles don't count; only minutes do.

Joe Henderson

GreatTimeMeEverythingDaysCount

I was going to go to school to become a neurological surgeon.

Angel Haze

SchoolGoBecomeSurgeonGoing

I'm not interested in owning a bunch of driveways.

Jeff Greene

Not InterestedOwningInterested

I just think people should find the music that helps them through the day and enjoy that. I've never felt like, if somebody does or doesn't like what I'm doing, it's a morality issue.

Amy Grant

MusicDayPeopleThinkDoingEnjoy

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

Steve Jobs

RelationshipHeartGreatLookingYou

The decline of violence is a fractal phenomenon. You can see it over millennia, over centuries, over decades and over years.

Steven Pinker

ViolenceYouOverYearsSeeDecades

If they said, 'Do five pull-ups,' I would always want to do 10.

Simone Biles

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When you start believing you're something special, then you're not going to be striving to move forward.

Robin Trower

StartForwardYouStrivingBelieving

The improv, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it does, it's like open-field running.

Robin Williams

SometimesImprovLikeRunningWorks

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

Mikhail Bakunin

HandsPrivilegeLeftCrookedWould

I've always enjoyed things going at a nice pace, nothing too fast, nothing too crazy.

Luke Bryan

CrazyFastNiceNothingAlwaysPace

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Louise L. Hay

WorkAnythingMentalWillingAlmost

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