#mounting

It is surmounting difficulties that makes heroes. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

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Surmounting difficulty is the crucible that forms character. ↗

— Tony Robbins

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Almost all of what I learned about mounting and hosting a dance show I learned from Dick Clark. ↗

— Don Cornelius

#almost #clark #dance #hosting #i

During the 1990s, world leaders looked at the mounting threat of terrorism, looked up, looked away, and hoped the problem would go away. ↗

— John Boehner

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When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#bankers #bankruptcy #became #calling #ceo

If you are faced with a mountain, you have several options. You can climb it and cross to the other side. You can go around it. You can dig under it. You can fly over it. You can blow it up. You can ignore it and pretend it’s not there. You can turn around and go back the way you came. Or you can stay on the mountain and make it your home. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

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We are also assisting the refugees who have fled across the border to Chad. As many of them have been subject to attacks by militia crossing from Sudan, UNHCR is mounting a major logistical operation to establish camps and transfer refugees away from the border zone. ↗

— Jan Egeland

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The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it. ↗

— Epicurus

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If the work of art is to continue pursuing the vision of both being in and of the world but nevertheless in some fashion being more than just one more object to the mounting clutter, this is the specific point, I think, where this must be assured. ↗

— Brian Ferneyhough

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The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests. ↗

— Epictetus

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