Quotes About Adventure

James A. Michener

That's the thing about time travel — you're always moving forward, even when you go back.

That's one benefit of travelling to your own future, and making the trip part of your past.

A thimble might be a kiss, a flower might be a name, and a dragon might be a ship

I'm going to repeat this: I buy experiences and not things. I don't like to buy my kids' gifts. But I'll take them places and won't hold back. They will lose and forget the "things" in the long run. But they will never forget the experiences.

when you rush to get to a mythical there, one day you will arrive and realize you missed all of the pleasures and mysteries along the way.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. 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.

You can find the tools to be happy right now. I still don't know what my purpose is. I'm afraid I will never know. That makes me very happy. Maybe I can have lots of adventures between today and the day I die. Maybe I can do lots of different things. And if I don't—if I die even tomorrow—that's fine also. What does purpose mean when we are dead? We might as well choose to be happy now.

Turn a few hours each day into a memory instead of a cubicle. Something you can laugh about.

We live in a world where the yellow brick road has many forks and can take us on many incredible journeys.

Thinking keeps the adventures of life bottled in your head. Action makes you a hero.

The rise of corporatism (as opposed to capitalism) forced people into cubicles instead of out into the world, exploring and inventing and manifesting.

But the reality is: reinvention is life. This is the call to adventure that constantly whispers to us. Do we answer it? Do we take the call?

Some people will say, "Well, I'm just not an entrepreneur." This is not true. Everyone is an entrepreneur. 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.

Try many things. One thing I realized is that quantity equals quality. People think it's one or the other but it's not. When you have a quantity of ideas and things you are trying, you will find quality.

Everything is a game. Understanding the rules allows you to succeed.

Everyone is an entrepreneur. The only skills you need to be an entrepreneur are an ability to fail, an ability to have ideas and to sell those ideas, the courage to execute on those ideas, and to be persistent so even as you fail you learn and move on to the next adventure.

Is this just a dream? Can life be lived so large? Have I been able to live life so large? To live to my fullest potential?

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

Years ago, when he was around fourteen, he'd been all hipped on the idea of going to India. He read books about people sitting on rocks, naked, in all kinds of weather, but mostly bad, naturally, and walking barefoot through hot coals and arriving at wisdom. I used to say that it sounded to me as though they were getting away from wisdom as fast as they could. I think he sort of looked down on me for that.

She marched into the street, found a liquor store and bought a bottle; and the weight of the bottle in her straw handbag somehow made everything real; as the purchase of a railroad ticket proves the imminence of a journey.

That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

I thought she would be fun to have fun with.

The life you think you should want,' said Eric, 'is always the life that looks safest.