Adventure Quote by Vilhjalmur Stefansson Download Open image “Adventure is a sign of incompetence.” — Vilhjalmur Stefansson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Adventure Incompetence Inspirational Love
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
“THERE IS A saying I happen to like: Adventure is a sign of incompetence. I find that there is a lot of truth to… — Dmitry Orlov Copy Share Image
“Adventure is a mistake one makes on purpose. It springs from a naive optimism that we can, in fact, do something that seems impossible,… — Mckittrick Erin Copy Share Image
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
An adventure is a situation where the outcome is not entirely within your control. It is up to fate, in other words — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
Adventure is something out of the usual pattern, a point at which you cannot avoid confronting the unknown, so that you have to dig… — Bertrand Piccard Copy Share Image
The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
The most striking contradiction of our civilization is the fundamental reverence for truth which we profess and the thorough-going disregard for it which we… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the… — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
A land may be said to be discovered the first time a European, presumably an Englishman, sets foot on it. — Vilhjalmur Stefansson Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I painted the words "GREAT ADVENTURE" in Beijing, Dallas, San Francisco, Copenhagen, and Japan. What it means to me is completely different to everybody else. And that's what I love about random words and phrases taken out of context: everyone applies their own context. If you want to apply something political or meaningful to a word I wrote on the… — Ben Eine Copy Share
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening closely to yourself as you think or compose and being aware of the different tensions and weights among the words, the different directions any one of them could lead. I like to play with the multiplicity… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share
What a thrill. You know you've entered new territory when you realise that your outfit cost more than your film. — Jessica Yu Copy Share Image
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned by a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The… — Alexander Supertramp Chris McCandless Copy Share
A common fallacy in much of the adverse criticism to which science is subjected today is that it claims certainty, infallibility and complete emotional… — Cyril Norman Hinshelwood Copy Share Image
“Exactly. I think the original tantric Buddhists took notice of was some very wise old people who never studied in their youth, but took part in a range of risk-taking adventures when they were younger, and finally became wise when they reflected upon their lives in old age. There is only one problem.” “Which is?” “Risk-taking is a way to… — Joe Niemczura Copy Share
As an adventurer...I try to protect against the downside. I make sure I have covered as many eventualities as I can. In the end,… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
“Love can give you such happiness, then can break the very heart it filled, leaving a hole that can never be fixed or protected… — Kevin McLeod Copy Share Image
“It always gave Wolf a peculiar thrill thus to tighten his grip upon his stick, thus to wrap himself more closely in his faded overcoat. Objects of this kind played a queer part in his secret life-illusion. His stick was like a plough-handle, a ship's runner, a gun, a spade, a sword, a spear. His threadbare overcoat was like a… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share
![“I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests with ZERO-G [a charter-flight service in Arlington, Va., that uses modified Boeing 727s to simulate weightlessness], which went great.” quote by Richard Branson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/aa1/richard-branson-256_adventure_i-ve-used-the-phoenix-centrifuge-to-repl_903.jpg)
