বাংলাদেশের সবচেয়ে উচু চুড়াটি খুজে বের করে সেটাতে অভিযান চালান বৃটিশ অভিযাত্রী জিজনে ফুলেন - ই সবার আগে । তাই বাংলাদেশের ট্রেকিং - মাউন্টেনিয়ারিং এর সাথে ফুলেন সাহেবের কথা জড়িত ওতপ্রোত ভাবে । তার কিছু প্রিয় উক্তি পেয়ে শেয়ার করার লোভ সামলাতে পারলাম না !

The greatest danger in life is not to take the adventure." Mallory ( কিংবদন্তীর এভারেষ্ট যাত্রী )

"Those who need to ask will never understand the answer. Those who understand the answer will never need to ask." Wally Herbert, 1968

"All men dream, but not equally. But the dreamers of today are dangerous men for they act out their dreams with their eyes open to make them possible." Julius Ceasar
( রোম সম্রাট )

"Wanted: men for hazardous journey; low wages, intense cold, long months of darkness and constant risks, return not certain." Ernest Shackleton - insertion in a London newspaper

"Give me a lucky General, not a good one. Everything is to chance." Napolean
( দুনিয়া কাপানো ফরাসী সমর নায়ক ও রাষ্ট্র নায়ক )

"The only limits are those of vision."

"Placed in a setting no human has explored, conditions no one has experienced and a sacrifice no one can imagine. At first you get in a situation where you abhor it. You can't stand it. It's terrible. But you can't get away from it. So you stick with it. And then you get so that you tolerate it. You tolerate it long enough, you embrace it. It becomes your way of life." Lewis Hayes, LCDR, Medical Corps, USS Indianapolis, Shark attack WW2


"Be positive. Take the risks in life as a matter of course. Without the risk of failure no exploration or experimentation would take place."

"Mankind has within his grasp everything that he ever wanted. Be it material or spiritual satisfaction. Too many people whine that they haven't got this or that, or haven't been given the opportunities for success. Opportunity knocks every second of the day; the trouble is we answer it about once every 70 years. Very often you have to knock on opportunity."

"There's no such thing as great men just great challenges that need to be overcome by ordinary people."

"I don't just want to go to the gates of hell, but open up the doors and have a good look inside."

"Imagination: a mind once stretched by a new idea never regains its original dimension."

"You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

"Life always comes down to just a few moments of time. Those are the ones that count."

"Having made a commitment to explore and fulfil my potential to the full I do not mind how long it takes me. The important thing is to have a dream, because a dream is the same whether injured or fit and a dream should be the same on a wet, cold night or a sunny afternoon."

"Some people dream of worthy accomplishments whilst others stay awake and do them."

"In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try."

"What luck is: years of preparation for that one opportunity."

"Better to live one day as a tiger than 1000 as a sheep."

"The plan is audacious and fraught with peril. I like it."
"All men die, but few really live."

"The golden rule is to expect everything to go wrong before it actually does."

"Waste anything but time, time is our greatest asset."

"Live when you're alive and sleep when you're dead."

"If life is a learning curve, keep it vertical."

"The only way to predict the future is to shape it."


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