#mount

[In mountaineering, if] we look for private experience rather than public history, even getting to the top becomes an optional narrative rather than the main point, and those who only wander in high places become part of the story. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#mountains #nature #page- #experience

The way the business things work in Russia is you have to meet people, you have to go through a certain amount of etiquette and business things are done just simply by a shake of the hand and whether they like you or not. ↗

— Marc Almond

#business #certain #done #etiquette #go

I was told my whole life, you're fat, you're ugly, you're never going to amount to be anything. ↗

— Tonya Harding

#anything #fat #going #i #life

Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#also #amount #banker #board #certain

How could you justify giving Holland twice the amount of money that you gave Belgium? Well, finally, I put it up to them. They said that they couldn't do it; it would destroy them. I said they had to do it. And I finally got support from Hoffman on it. ↗

— W. Averell Harriman

#belgium #could #destroy #finally #gave

When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#directly #directly proportional #disagreeable #feel #himself

Think of Internet on the TV like the Web browser. The amount of time you spend on the PC in the browser is just going to grow continuously. ↗

— Reed Hastings

#browser #continuously #going #grow #internet

It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#amount #because #considering #could #down

Even the small amount of infamy I have makes me uncomfortable - on a personal level and on a professional level. ↗

— John Hawkes

#even #i #infamy #level #makes

The only problem we've had is the amount of time it's taking people to develop titles. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#develop #had #only #people #problem