A Quote by Roald Amundsen

With sufficient planning, you can almost eliminate adventure from an expedition.

Roald Amundsen

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Roald Amundsen
Norwegian - Explorer
July 16, 1872 - June 18, 1928

Adventures happen only to those incapable of planning an expedition.

Richard Evans Schultes

I've always liked adventure television. Pre-'Survivor,' I did a series on cable called 'Eco-Challenge,' an adventure race with experts mainly, and here we have 'Expedition Impossible.' I like the outdoors and I like doing something fresh for television you haven't seen before.

Mark Burnett

I will say, if you are planning a seaplane expedition anytime soon I urge you to brace yourselves.

Nick Viall

Roald Amundsen says that 'Adventure is just bad planning.' In that case, friends, let us make more bad planning!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Expedition EVEREST adds a new dimension to our storytelling in Disney's Animal Kingdom. It's a thrilling adventure themed to the folklore of the mysterious yeti.

Joe Rohde

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Dean Koontz

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

Peter O'Toole

Whatever you're thinking about is literally like planning a future event. When you're worrying, you are planning. When you are appreciating, you are planning...What are you planning?

Esther Hicks

Adventure is just bad planning.

Roald Amundsen

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

No one will pay you for planning an expedition at first: you have to work in pubs at weekends so you can pay the gas bills. I joined the Territorial Army, which paid me when I turned up to drill nights, and so did my wife.

Ranulph Fiennes

After mature consideration it was unanimously agreed, that, to prevent as much as possible their attempting to return and molest the settlers that may be set down on their lands, a sufficient number of vessels should be hired with all possible expedition for that purpose.

Charles Lawrence

Good planning is important. I've also regarded a sense of humor as one of the most important things on a big expedition. When you're in a difficult or dangerous situation, or when you're depressed about the chances of success, someone who can make you laugh eases the tension.

Edmund Hillary

Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables.

Dean Karnazes

The ultimate starting point for planning any adventure or expeditionby far and away the greatest book on earth

Ranulph Fiennes

So, for me, I make no difference whether I'm training with my shuttle crew or the Expedition crew. Of course, I think I want to take more care of the Expedition crew, because they're going to stay there for a long time.

Philippe Perrin

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