#venture

Today I still feel like the most illiterate person ever to have roamed the campuses of Wellesley and Harvard, where I later transferred. I remain intimidated by all the books I haven't read, but over the years I've come to realize that being a student is a lifelong adventure. ↗

— Elisabeth Shue

#being #books #campuses #come #ever

Restless, and in desperate need of adventure, I quit my job at an insurance company to travel west with a couple of guys I smoked pot with, scandalizing my family. ↗

— Mink Stole

#company #couple #desperate #family #guys

Nothing ventured, nothing gained. And venture belongs to the adventurous. ↗

— Navjot Singh Sidhu

#belongs #gained #nothing #venture #ventured

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself. ↗

— Joshua Slocum

#adventure #deductions #detailed #endeavoured #friends

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. ↗

— Jawaharlal Nehru

#adventure #adventures #charm #end #eyes

I quit being afraid when my first venture failed and the sky didn't fall down. ↗

— Allen Neuharth

#being #being afraid #down #failed #fall

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

In any age, there is no shortage of people willing to embark on a hazardous adventure. Columbus and Magellan filled eight ships between them for voyages into the void. One hundred and fifty years ago, the possibilities offered by missionary service were limitless and first-rate. Later, Scott and Shackleton turned away droves after filling their crews for their desperate Antarctic voyages. In 1959 ... sailor H.W. Tilman, looking for a crew for a voyage in an old wooden yacht to the Southern Ocean, ran this ad in the London Times: "Hand [man] wanted for long voyage in small boat. No pay, no prospects, not much pleasure." Tilman received more replies than he could investigate, one from as far away as Saigon. ↗

— Peter Nichols

#daring #journey #travel #age

A hero called Adin rose from the ranks of the people. He was an ordinary man, a blacksmith who made swords and armor and shoes for horses. But he had been blessed with strsngth, courage, and cleverness. ↗

— Emily Rodda

#courage

Adventure, like beauty, is very much in the eye of the beholder. ↗

— Victoria Alexander

#beauty #beauty