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“I never was content unless I was trying my skill...or testing my endurance.”

Trying Skills Endurance Testing

Author:Jim Thorpe

“In the early 1930s, flying from England to Australia was the longest flight in the world. It was considered extremely dangerous and hazardous, pushing pilots to the limits of mechanical skills and human endurance. Aviation was young.”

World Humans Young Dangerous Skills Limits England Flying Flight Australia Aviation Pushing Endurance Pilots 1930s Military Aviation

Author:Mary Garden

“They are both all over physical sports that require being focused, accurate and having good strength. They are both fast with big consequences if things go wrong, so I have to be alert and aware at all times. With racing there is much more endurance and technical skill.”

Ifs Bigs Sports Skills Consequence Focused All Time Endurance Racing Accurate Technical Skills

Author:Liz Halliday

“I no longer sought skill, flexibility, strength, endurance, muscle tone, and quick responsiveness as means of imposing my will on the instrument, but rather of keeping an open and unrestricted pathway for the creative impulse to play its music straight from the preconscious depths beneath and beyond me.”

Mean Play Creative Skills Instruments Depth Impulse Tone Muscles Endurance Flexibility Pathways Imposing Responsiveness

Author:Stephen Nachmanovitch

“To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.”

Eye Energy Skills Organization Etc Endurance Plus Climbing Salesmanship Photojournalists

Author:Ruth Orkin

“Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.”

Difficult Particular Skills Music Is Determination Endurance Passages Classical Music

Book:No Doubt about it

Source: No Doubt about it

“Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats. Yet each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence and thus each obstacle is a comrade-in-arms forcing you to become better... or quit. Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.”

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World

“Each struggle, each defeat, sharpens your skills and strengths, your courage and your endurance, your ability and your confidence.”

Inspirational Ability Struggle Skills Defeat Endurance Rebuff

Book:The Greatest Salesman in the World

Source: The Greatest Salesman in the World