Ran across this in today’s TRIBUNE.
The quote that stands out, by a Shackleton contemporary (Vilhjalmur Stefanson) is “Adventure is a sign of incompetence. “
Sounds like something you’ve written!
In fact it does. As some of you know on the lines page of my main site can be found:
Amateurs seek adventures. Professionals seek to avoid them.
And I have quoted Roald Amundsen:
Adventures are the result of bad planning.
For the record I wrote my line years before knowing of the other quotes.
We each understood that when you are embarking on an endeavor that is difficult and dangerous you do not want adventure. You know that chance can destroy you and so you plan and prepare to minimize the consequences of chance, though you know you cannot eliminate them completely. You want not to need good luck to succeed, but only extremely bad luck to cause you to fail.
I take pride in being in such good company.
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