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"Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach."
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"Take it one step at a time-inarguably wise advice. And yet we all take a running leap, hoping the wind will catch us on its wings and lift us clear to the top of the beanstalk. Those few Jacks who have reached new heights in this manner inevitably wish they had taken more time to prepare for the overbearing giant who greeted them."
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"He went to work in this preparatory lesson, not unlike Morgiana in the Forty Thieves: looking into all the vessels ranged before him, one after another, to see what they contained. Say, good M'Choakumchild. When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within-or sometimes only maim him and distort him!"
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"Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach."
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"If you want your ship to come in you must build a dock."
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"Go ahead and eat your bread, a time will come when it shall get to you breath. Go ahead and leave your pen, exams will come when you shall remember the pen!"
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"Like completing a run, living today begins with preparation, planning, and prayer."
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"However, if you fail to prepare, you will either go through stress to win your race or you may quit when the battle becomes tougher than you ever imagined."
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"Whether you're delivering a sales presentation to a new client, going on a trip, speaking in front of a thousand people, or handling a customer complaint, when you are prepared, you are more empowered to do your best and perform at a higher level. It feels great!"
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"The wilderness is a place of trials and temptations where everyone is prepared and trained to fulfill God's calling."
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"No one is born successful, success requires preparation."
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"A journey of observation must leave as much as possible to chance. Random movement is the best plan for maximum observation."
Observation
"I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it."
Caution
"My father used to say that stories are part of the most precious heritage of mankind."
Tradition
"Osman and Prideep had been in my employment for some weeks. Every Friday I would take the to lunch. It was the high point of their calender. During the meal I would harangue them as a reminder of what they had been hired for: but my orations never seemed to increase their output. I realised later that, in the East, a commitment to produce does not automatically accompany employment."
Culture
"Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster."
Leadership
"For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure."
Discovery
"In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough."
Adaptation
"A journey, I reflected, is of no merit unless it has tested you."
Journey
"Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession."
Exploration
"The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it."
Fear
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