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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives
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When things are easy a person doesn't really learn about himself. It's what a person does at the moment of his greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people never get that moment. The U-Who is my moment. What I do now is what I am.
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It wasn't who a person believed himself to be or what he pretended he would do in a given situation. It was what he did when he got there that defined him.
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In a world where even the moon had been traveled, the floor of the Atlantic remained uncharted wilderness, its shipwrecks beacons for men compelled to look.
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Many dead divers have been found inside shipwrecks with more than enough air remaining to have made it to the surface. It is not that they chose to die, but rather that they could no longer figure out how to live.
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Most men, it seemed to them, went through life never really knowing themselves. A man might consider himself noble or brave or just, they believed, but until he was truly tested it would always be mere opinion.
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Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.
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In the United States, of the ten million certified scuba divers, it is likely that only a few hundred dive deep for shipwrecks. To those few, it is not a matter of if they will taste death, only of whether they'll swallow.
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After the meal, Borman dropped me off at my hotel, then went to visit his wife at the nursing home where she lives. As he drove away, it seemed to me strange--I felt I'd come to know Susan as well as I had Frank, despite having met her for just a few minutes, despite the fact that she had been too ill to speak. When I returned home and transcribed the tapes of my interviews, I understood why. Borman spoke of Susan constantly; there didn't s..
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The feeling of a place was the best reason to go.
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travel
culture
tourism
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." Texas senator Lyndon Baines Johnson was"
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History was a crystal ball that told as much about the future as it did about the past.
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liberal-arts
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He rolled with the unexpected--and much was unexpected on Seeker trips--because he believed in "No matter what."
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Robert Kurson |
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Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
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If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.
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Treasure shows who you really are. It strips away every facade you've constructed, every story you believe about yourself, and reveals the real you. If you are a miserable, lying, greedy, worthless fuck, treasure will tell you that. If you are a good and decent person, treasure will tell you that, too. And you needn't find a single coin to know. It's enough to get close to treasure, to believe it within reach, and you'll have your answer, b..
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with these decisions forever. - Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you. - It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong. - The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, who has said, "I'm already dead--the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself," is the most f..
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For all its wickedness, however, Port Royal seemed to tolerate everyone. Quakers, Catholics, atheists, Jews--all were free to worship and believe as they pleased, and they lived peacefully alongside one another as Port Royal became the richest town in the New World. Pirates and buccaneers continued to arrive, welcomed by a public that understood the wellspring of its good fortune, and who ate, drank, and lived among these fast-living men.
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This is the greatest pirate story ever," Bowden said. "And no one knows about it." --
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Stories were heirlooms in these parts.
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leadership
inspiration
motivation
narrative
legacy
storytelling
parenthood
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Sometimes the imagination could be even crueler than the bone saw.
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suffering
thought-life
spiritual-warfare
distraction
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It was too late for he and his father to have an adventure, and NOTHING seemed to have any color anymore.
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risk
mission
maturation
parenthood
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Even their downtime was epic.
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boldness
goal-setting
leisure
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more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing
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Reputation became the pirates' sharpest sword.
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fear
reputation
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only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.
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the only way to see what really mattered in life was to go to the places that were hardest to reach.
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treasure is crisis, because what you get in the end is yourself.
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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. - If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. - Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. - Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. - Exami..
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and when he sat against trees to catch his breath he marveled at how full life felt when a person got to be excellent,
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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -- If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -- Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -- Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -..
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A telegraph on display in a diver's living room, therefore, is much more than a shiny object; it is an announcement. It says, If someone had been to this ship's wheelhouse before me, he would not have left this telegraph behind.
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Life is a matter of luck, and the odds in favor of success are in no way enhanced by extreme caution. -- WWII German U-Boat Commander Eric Topp
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life
luck
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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. -- If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. -- Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. -- Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. -..
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If an undertaking was easy, someone els already would have done it. ~ If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. ~ Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. ~ Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. ~ Examin..
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If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it. ~ If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving. ~ Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average. ~ Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever. ~ Exami..
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Not all divers succumb to panic as Drozd did. A great diver learns to stand down his emotions. At the moment he becomes lost or blinded or tangled or trapped, that instant when millions of years of evolution demand fight or flight and narcosis carves order from his brain, he dials down his fear and contracts into the moment until his breathing slows and his narcosis lightens and his reason returns. In this way he overcomes his humanness and..
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