“Consider developing your whole self with the same raw focus and intensity that you develop a particular skill set. Get focused. Go out, have adventures. Run, jump, skin your knee, fall in love, root loudly for the away team at a baseball game, barely escape a crash of stampeding rhinos, live to see another day. Experience things big and small. Go for a walk. The world is full of wonders.” WorldLoveSelfWholeBigsRunningFallGamesWalksWonderFocusTeamParticularAdventureSelf LoveWalkingSkillsRootsSkinsExperienceBaseballFalling In LoveFocusedDevelopingKneesIntensityCrashAnother DayBaseball GamesLive LoveRhinos Author:Anthony Holden
“I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube.” MenLongAmericaEnergyPoorAdventureSkillsDrawsDestructiveFundVietnamTubesRehabilitationMilitarismDemonicBreaking Silence Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Alone? Is he alone at whose right side rides Courage, with Skill within the cockpit and faith upon the left? Does solitude surround the brave when Adventure leads the way and Ambition reads the dials? Is there no company with him, for whom the air is cleft by Daring and the darkness made light by Emprise?” WayDoeMadeSoulLightLeftSidesCompanyDarknessAirAdventureSolitudeSkillsAmbitionBraveSurroundDaringCockpit Author:Charles Lindbergh
“The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are the ability to fail, to have ideas, to sell those ideas, to execute on them, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move onto the next adventure.” NeedsIdeasMovingNextAbilityFailingAdventureSkillsSellsEntrepreneurPersistentNext Adventure Author:James Altucher
“Every new skill you learn, every adventure you go on, every new thing you try, it only makes you a better artist.” TryingArtistAdventureGoes OnSkillsNew ThingsNew Skills Author:Rachele Brooke Smith
“These days young kids don't have any place to form an epic adventure. It's more often in front of the TV screen or a laptop. That's very hard on them. They're being taught daily unsocial skills. Facebook is an unsocial skill. It's so sad.” HardKidsFormYoungFrontsTaughtAdventureTvsSkillsScreensThese DaysEpicLaptopsSo Sad Author:John Lydon
“A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor.” MenYearsLongWarAmericaSpiritualEnergyNationsSocialPoorSilenceEnemyMilitaryAdventureSkillsDrawsProgramRelationBetrayalDefenseUpliftingDestructiveFundVietnamAntiwarMore MoneySilence IsCompelledTubesRehabilitationDemonicBreaking SilenceSpiritual Death Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“People who have faith in life are like swimmers who entrust themselves to a rushing river. They neither abandon themselves to its current nor try to resist it. Rather, they adjust their every movement to the watercourse, use it with purpose and skill, and enjoy the adventure.” PeopleTryingUsePurposeEnjoyFocusMovementAdventureSkillsRiversCurrentsAbandonHave FaithFlexibilityRushingSwimmer Book:Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed Source: Deeper Than Words: Living the Apostles' Creed
“Think of managing change as an adventure. It tests your skills and abilities. It brings forth talent that may have been dormant. Change is also a training ground for leadership. When we think of leaders, we remember times of change, innovation, and conflict. Leadership is often about shaping a new way of life. To do that, you must advance change, take risks, and accept responsibility for making change happen.” ThinkingWayMayHas BeensHappensRememberLeadershipAbilityResponsibilityLeaderAcceptingRiskTalentAdventureSkillsConflictTrainingTestsInnovationNew WaysMaking ChangesDormantManaging ChangeNew Way Of LifeSkills And Abilities Author:Charles E. Rice