“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Yvon Chouinard (1938) American mountain climber
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
“How you climb a mountain is more important than reaching the top.”
Yvon Chouinard (1938) American mountain climber
Source: Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Salon interview (1996)
Context: When I was growing up, everyone around me was fond of fooling around with words. It was certainly common in my family, but I think it is typical of Bombay, and maybe of India, that there is a sense of play in the way people use language. Most people in India are multilingual, and if you listen to the urban speech patterns there you'll find it's quite characteristic that a sentence will begin in one language, go through a second language and end in a third. It's the very playful, very natural result of juggling languages. You are always reaching for the most appropriate phrase.
Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
"1925-1930" http://books.google.com/books?id=Zvi195aKdvMC&q=%22Never+measure+the+height+of+a+mountain+until+you+have+reached+the+top+then+you+will+see+how+low+it+was%22&pg=PA3#v=onepage <br class="br">Markings (1964)
Frederik Pohl (1919–2013) American science fiction writer and editor
The Way The Future Was, (autobiography, 1978)
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Jean Piaget (1896–1980) Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & academic
Conversations with Jean Piaget (1980) by Jean Claude Bringuier