Adventure Quotes - Page 24

• I never think of the completed film, rather the adventure of what I'm about to live.

  Jean Dujardin

  Thinking, Film

  "'The Artist's Jean Dujardin On His Doubts About The Black-And-White Silent Film And The Joy Of Taking Risks". Interview with Anthony D’Alessandro, deadline.com. February 9, 2012.

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• Man needs air, man needs water, man needs food and man needs adventure also! Adventure is a medicine for the infinite boredom.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Medicine, Air

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• Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Planning, Cases

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• The adventures of the boy who doesn't want to grow up has universal appeal. We all want to keep something of the child in us.

  Tessa Jowell

  Children, Growing Up, Boys

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• The Universe is vast. Nothing is more curious than the self-satisfied dogmatism with which mankind at each period of its history cherishes the delusion of the finality of existing modes of knowledge. Skeptics and believers are alike. At this moment scientists and skeptics are the leading dogmatists. Advance in detail is admitted; fundamental novelty is barred. This dogmatic common sense is the death of philosophic adventure.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Common Sense, Novelty

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• Life, in both its knowing and its doing, has become today a "free fall," so to say, into the next minute, into the future. So that, whereas, formerly, those not wishing to hazard the adventure of an individual life could rest within the pale of a comfortably guaranteed social order, today all the walls have burst. It is not left to us to chooseto hazard the adventure of an unprecedented life: adventure is upon us, like a tidal wave.

  Joseph Campbell

  Wall, Fall, Order

  Joseph Campbell (1988). “Myths, dreams, and religion”, Spring Pubns

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• With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

  Roald Amundsen

  Planning, Expeditions, Sufficient

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• I don't want a simple life. I want an extraordinary continuous adventure. That's the problem. I just want more. I want it all & everything in-between.

  Heather Dorff

  Simple, Want, Problem

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• Without the instinct for adventure, any civilization, however enlightened; any state, however well-ordered, will wilt and wither.

  Kurt Hahn

  Civilization, Enlightened, Instinct

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• An adventure story is fear recalled in comfort.

  Christopher Moore

  Comfort, Stories

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• Rather than focus on the negative aspects of change, which is loss, I focus on the adventure of it and say "What's next?"

  Dennis Wholey

  Loss, Focus, Negative

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• In recent years we have become much more preoccupied with streamlining and organizing our subject than with maintaining its overall vitality. If we are not careful, a great adventure of the mind will become yet another profession.

  Mark Kac

  Years, Mind, Vitality

  Mark Kac, Gian-Carlo Rota, Jacob T. Schwartz (2009). “Discrete Thoughts: Essays on Mathematics, Science and Philosophy”, p.11, Springer Science & Business Media

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• The spirit of adventure to embrace the new and the incredible belief in the power of invention attracted me to the Russian avant-garde.

  Zaha Hadid

  Avant Garde, Spirit, Belief

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• I'm a person with a lot of affection for adventure - I scuba dive, skydive, fly helicopters.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Scuba, Affection, Helicopters

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• My career has been my craziest adventure.

  Ray Romano

  Careers, Craziest, Has Beens

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• Many people have compared me to the Victorian adventure writer, Rider Haggard. I accept that as a compliment. As a boy growing up in Central Africa I read all Haggard's African novels.

  Walter Smith

  Growing Up, Boys, People

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• The scientist does not defy the universe. He accepts it. It is his dish to savor, his realm to explore; it is his adventure and never-ending delight. It is complaisant and elusive but never dull. It is wonderful both in the small and in the large. In short, its exploration is the highest occupation for a gentleman.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Gentleman, Dull, Doe

  Isidor Isaac Rabi (1970). “Science: the center of culture”

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• If we never met again in our lives I should feel that somehow the whole adventure of existence was justified by my having met you.

  Lewis Mumford

  Justified, Should, Mets

  Lewis Mumford (1979). “My works and days: a personal chronicle”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• The adventure that the hero is ready for is the one he gets.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Ready

  Joseph Campbell, Bill D. Moyers (1988). “The Power of Myth”, Harmony

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• We are not a warlike people. Nor is our history filled with tales of aggressive adventures and imperialism, which might come as a shock to some of the placard painters in our modern demonstrations. The lesson of Vietnam, I think, should be that never again will young Americans be asked to fight and possibly die for a cause unless that cause is so meaningful that we, as a nation, pledge our full resources to achieve victory as quickly as possible.

  Ronald Reagan

  Meaningful, Fighting, Thinking

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• A little stress and adventure is good for you, if nothing else, just to prove you are alive.

  Lady Bird Johnson

  Stress, Alive, Littles

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• You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly.

  Mark Twain

  Book, Names, Matter

  The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn ch. 1 (1884)

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• We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs - to see new vistas, take new tours, obtain new entrees, introduce new bacteria into our intestinal tracts, learn new words for "transfusion," and have all the other travel adventures that make us want to French-kiss our doormats when we finally get home.

  Dave Barry

  Home, Kissing, Want

  "Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need". Book by Dave Barry, 1991.

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• The pleasure in traveling consists of the obstacles, the fatigue, and even the danger. What charm can anyone find in an excursion when he is always sure of reaching his destination, of having horses ready waiting for him, a soft bed, an excellent supper, and all the eases and comfort he can enjoy in his own home! One of the great misfortunes of modern life is the want of any sudden surprise, and the absence of all adventure. Everything is so well arranged.

  Theophile Gautier

  Horse, Home, Waiting

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• Our answer is the world's hope; it is to rely on youth. The cruelties and the obstacles of this swiftly changing planet will not yield to obsolete dogmas and outworn slogans. It cannot be moved by those who cling to a present which is already dying, who prefer the illusion of security to the excitement and danger which comes with even the most peaceful progress. This world demands the qualities of youth: not a time of life but a state of mind, a temper of the will, a quality of imagination, a predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over the life of ease...

  Robert Kennedy

  Yield, Imagination, Peaceful

  Robert F. Kennedy's Day of Affirmation Address at the University of Capetown, South Africa, www.mtholyoke.edu. June 6, 1966.

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