#venture

I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's far more pressure to make a mark, so the temptation is to make adventure television or personality shows. I hope the more didactic approach won't be lost. ↗

— David Attenborough

#adventure #ago #approach #days #didactic

I am inclined to attach some importance to the new system of manufacturing; and venture to throw it out with the hope of its receiving a full discussion among those who are most interestedin the subject. ↗

— Charles Babbage

#among #attach #discussion #full #hope

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#beauty

I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts. ↗

— Herman Melville

#adventuresome #just-do-it #travels #love

We are all products of our environment; every person we meet, every new experience or adventure, every book we read, touches and changes us, making us the unique being we are. ↗

— C.J. Heck

#experiences-and-adventures #how-we-become-us #who-we-are #change

When you - when you - and this is still going on today - are making your money by pushing paper around, when you should be making your money by investing venture capital in various job-creating things, that makes it much harder to recover. ↗

— Howard Dean

#capital #going #harder #investing #makes

Finite to fail, but infinite to venture. ↗

— Emily Dickinson

#finite #infinite #venture

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome. ↗

— William Bligh

#any #bay #convenient #during #exceedingly

All the 20th we were endeavouring to get into Adventure Bay but were prevented by variable winds. ↗

— William Bligh

#bay #endeavouring #get #into #prevented

Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day. ↗

— Daniel Boone

#been #briefly #circumstances #country #day