" ~ If an undertaking was easy, someone else already would have done it.
~ If you follow in another's footsteps, you miss the problems really worth solving.
~ Excellence is born of preparation, dedication, focus, and tenacity; compromise on any of these and you become average.
~ Every so often, life presents a great moment of decision, an intersection at which a man must decide to stop or go; a person lives with these decisions forever.
~ Examine everything; not all is as it seems or as people tell you.
~ It is easiest to live with a decision if it is based on an earnest sense of right and wrong.
~ The guy who gets killed is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care any more, who has said, 'I'm already dead -- the fact that I live or die is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is the accounting I give of myself,' is the most formidable force in the world.
~ The worst possible decision is to give up. "

― Robert Kurson , Shadow Divers