Steve Fossett quote: "I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats."

The good thing about flying solo is it's never boring.
STEVE FOSSETT

This is a Solo Flight, but I want aviation enthusiasts and adventurers everywhere to join me in the ...
STEVE FOSSETT

A hot air balloon requires a great deal of fuel to keep it aloft, so that you can't fly it even ...
STEVE FOSSETT

I would think in Kevin's case that he has to be very pleased, ... He's making one of the finest ball...
STEVE FOSSETT

I was never comfortable with the risk of climbing in the Himalayas, or the amount of time in idlenes...
STEVE FOSSETT

As of May when we broke the Marseilles-Carthage record, we held the six fastest outright passage rec...
STEVE FOSSETT

As a Scout, I learned how to set goals and achieve them. Being a Scout also taught me leadership at ...
STEVE FOSSETT

So far there have been few problems. A broken winch was readily repaired by the crew, as was a batte...
STEVE FOSSETT

So this is turning into a real classic test for these boats, and we're motivated to get it back. It ...
STEVE FOSSETT

You have to believe that you are going to succeed with this flight because a water landing would be ...
STEVE FOSSETT

So while I've been tied up with my balloons and my gliders, I've lost considerable ground in terms o...
STEVE FOSSETT

We were dragged for at least a couple of miles and probably bounced 50 times before the balloon sett...
STEVE FOSSETT

Flying solo, you have a fair workload. I'm not only flying the balloon but doing the navigation,...
STEVE FOSSETT

If he won, it would have been a $3 million prize, which he was going to contribute to his charities.
STEVE FOSSETT

The first solo nonstop is a grand endeavor,
STEVE FOSSETT

The damage sustained to the wing last week could have been a real setback for 'The Ultimate Flight' ...
STEVE FOSSETT

Whereas my falling in the Coral Sea almost killed me -- because that was in a thunderstorm in a rupt...
STEVE FOSSETT

I would think in Kevin's case that he has to be very pleased. He's making one of the finest balloon ...
STEVE FOSSETT

It would have been a lot of fun as a receiver to play.
STEVE LARGENT

YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.
STEVE CHEN

We're allowing technology to take out the non-value-added manual elements of the McDonald's ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Ultimately, the bread and butter of McDonald's is delivering great service, great quality food, ...
STEVE EASTERBROOK

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.
STEVE MARTIN

Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those specie...
STEVE IRWIN

There's a waterfall of content that you're missing out on.
STEVE CHEN

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN

I've got to keep breathing. It'll be my worst business mistake if I don't.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I did pretty well, considering I started out with nothing but a bunch of blank paper.
STEVE MARTIN

When your hobbies get in the way of your work - that's OK; but when your hobbies get in the way ...
STEVE MARTIN

I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period.
STEVE MARTIN

I think I meant that, given the circumstances of my childhood, I had the illusion that it's easi...
STEVE MARTIN

What I mean is that none of my talents had a - what's that great word - rubric. A singer, an act...
STEVE MARTIN

Tweeting is really only good for one thing - it's just good for tweeting... It is rewarding, bec...
STEVE MARTIN

Boy, those French: they have a different word for everything!
STEVE MARTIN

I got a flue shot and now my chimney works perfectly.
STEVE MARTIN

What is a movie star? A movie star is many things. They can be tall, short, thin, or skinny. They ca...
STEVE MARTIN

I really enjoy finding the right word, creating a good, flowing sentence. I enjoy the rhythm of the ...
STEVE MARTIN

Everything is fraught with danger. I love technology and I love science. It's just always all in...
STEVE MARTIN

I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent re...
STEVE MARTIN

I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.
STEVE MARTIN

Nothing I do is done by popular demand.
STEVE MARTIN

Well, excuuuuuse me!
STEVE MARTIN

What is comedy? Comedy is the art of making people laugh without making them puke.
STEVE MARTIN

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.
STEVE MARTIN

Snakes are just very instinctive to me. I've been playing with snakes since before I could walk....
STEVE IRWIN

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.
STEVE IRWIN

So fear helps me from making mistakes, but I make lot of mistakes.
STEVE IRWIN

No, snakes are no problem. I'd go to any country, anywhere, any snakes, not a problem.
STEVE IRWIN

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.
STEVE IRWIN

I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we ...
STEVE IRWIN

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from...
STEVE IRWIN

We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been s...
STEVE IRWIN

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.
STEVE IRWIN

The only animals I'm not comfortable with are parrots, but I'm learning as I go. I'm get...
STEVE IRWIN

When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to...
STEVE IRWIN

No matter where you go and what you do in America, you turn the tele on and you're confronted wi...
STEVE IRWIN

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet...
STEVE IRWIN

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
STEVE IRWIN

Yeah, I'm a thrill seeker, but crikey, education's the most important thing.
STEVE IRWIN

Where I live if someone gives you a hug it's from the heart.
STEVE IRWIN

I've probably saved thousands of peoples' lives with my educational message on snake bites, ...
STEVE IRWIN

There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Chris...
STEVE HARVEY

It's all about persevering. You know you're going to be tested. If you keep your eyes fixed ...
STEVE ALFORD

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.
STEVE MARTIN

Yes, guns are to men what jewelry is to women!
STEVE KING

Older people sit down and ask, 'What is it?' but the boy asks, 'What can I do with it?&#...
STEVE JOBS

But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night ...
STEVE JOBS

It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w...
STEVE JOBS

Throughout my years in business, I discovered something. I would always ask why you do things. The a...
STEVE JOBS

Computers themselves, and software yet to be developed, will revolutionize the way we learn.
STEVE JOBS

A minimum wage leads to higher levels of unemployment.
STEVE HANKE

I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake...
STEVE IRWIN

I used to have a pseudonym for Twitter, and I'm trying to get my check to verify me.
STEVE MNUCHIN

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
STEVE ALBINI

The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means...
STEVE STOCKMAN

I have an independent record label called Favored Nations on which I released an album by an artist ...
STEVE VAI

Lombardi, a certain magic still lingers in the very name. It speaks of duels in the snow and Novembe...
STEVE SABOL

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue befo...
STEVE BUYER

I expect VA's inspector general and the FBI to work closely together so that we can identify and...
STEVE BUYER

The nation's obligation to her defenders is as old as that defense itself.
STEVE BUYER

Our nation has kept faith with its veterans. Funding for veterans healthcare and benefits is strong,...
STEVE BUYER

Each family of the United States military now attends to their loved ones funeral with a wrenching w...
STEVE BUYER

As a matter of fact, when compression technology came along, we thought the future in 1996 was about...
STEVE BUYER

The men and women of today's VA are dedicated to caring for today's veterans and stand ready...
STEVE BUYER

Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs...
STEVE BUYER

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.
STEVE BUYER

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence ...
STEVE BUYER

We, the people of the United States, we are a great Nation with a great vision.
STEVE BUYER

I also believe that Hurricane Katrina did reveal a weakness in our energy supply systems, highlighti...
STEVE BUYER

The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide ar...
STEVE BUYER

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.
STEVE BUYER

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best a...
STEVE BUYER

Men and women whose early youth was shaped in the ordeal of the Great Depression showed the values f...
STEVE BUYER

Since the Revolution, eight generations of America's veterans have established an unbroken commi...
STEVE BUYER

I just love putting on the uniform; it's what I have done since I was 6 or 7 years old. It's...
STEVE FINLEY

I'm a team player. But I will say that I've never been a 'yes man' in my life.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

In Washington, if someone disagrees with you, the problem must be your heart - you must be evil.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I think voters appreciate that I'm not sitting in the back row, waiting for my turn.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

The people of Florida's 2nd Congressional District said, 'Steve, go up there and fight to ch...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Down where I grew up, able-bodied people do that which we believe God created them to do. Work is a ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Work is life. Work is opportunity.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I do believe in tax incentives in order to move the economy forward.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I believe that being dependent makes you more vulnerable. I believe work is the greatest gift you wi...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I came out of the private sector, a life that I enjoyed. I sleep in a bed every night with a woman I...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

What is true is that if we do not change the culture of Washington, D.C., the United States of Ameri...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

One thing we cannot put a number on is the number of casualties because people were never connected ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, ...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

I believe that the federal government, like a raging river, has expanded upon the barriers and the b...
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

Don't wait for your ship to come in. Swim out to it.
STEVE SOUTHERLAND

You probably choose x-country because you were too small to play football.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't g...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If you can make money with your talents, why not?
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I knew I had to show everybody that I could excel at something. But I didn't know what.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

It doesn't feel that good when you're ahead the whole way.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slo...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

This is my last year at Oregon, and it means a lot to me. The people have been great to me up there,...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

If he's having a good day and running the right race, nobody can beat Frank Shorter at 10,000 me...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Nobody likes tainted victories.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

No one will ever win a 5,000-meter by running an easy two miles. Not against me.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

What I want is to be number one.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Every once in a while I think, 'What am I doing out here running, busting myself up? Life could ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took o...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of thi...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

When people go to a track meet, they're looking for something, a world record, something that ha...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I have a positive mental attitude, and I think I'm divine, but I also think it takes a heck of a...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perf...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Some people create with words or with music or with a brush and paints. I like to make something bea...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

A lot of people run a race to see who is fastest. I run to see who has the most guts, who can punish...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

To hell with love of country - I compete for myself.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

I'm going to work so that it's a pure guts race at the end, and if it is, I am the only one ...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

It's not who's the best - it's who can take the most pain.
STEVE PREFONTAINE

Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back t...
STEVE PREFONTAINE

In January 2013, one could buy a Bitcoin for about $13. By late November, one Bitcoin would have set...
STEVE HANKE

In 2008, Bitcoin was mysteriously introduced to the world in an obscure, technical paper written und...
STEVE HANKE

Flourishing is everyone's birthright. I'm trying to break this hold that being smiley and ch...
STEVE JURVETSON

Birthplace of Obama: Oahu. Birthplace of Obama's budget policies: Neverland.
STEVE BREEN

White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black ...
STEVE ERICKSON

I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven...
STEVE CARELL

Nothing is black-and-white, except for winning and losing, and maybe that's why people gravitate...
STEVE NASH

We've been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we've been kicking it all over the shop,...
STEVE NASH

Since I was first nominated to serve as Treasury Secretary, I have been maligned as taking advantage...
STEVE MNUCHIN

When you play with Kobe Bryant, the ball is gonna be with him most of the time, which is understanda...
STEVE NASH

We are meant to be one. And only after we realize that amazing truth can we find what we need – tr...
STEVE GOODIER

I thought Microsoft did a lot of things that were good and right building parts of the browser into ...
STEVE WOZNIAK

There have been nine Super Bowls in New Orleans, and not all of them have brought the best of luck t...
STEVE SABOL

It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also ...
STEVE WOZNIAK

[I'll teach you] how not to leave the windows of your heart open when it looks like rain and how eve...
STEVE TOLTZ

People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces...
STEVE TOLTZ

I think if you do something and it turns out pretty good, then you should go do something else wonde...
STEVE JOBS

As a kid in British Columbia, going back a long way, I learned to skate.
STEVE YZERMAN

September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the...
STEVE MARABOLI

I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent readi...
STEVE TRUGLIA

We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I...
STEVE EARLE

I'm very, very bullish about our prospects, and as I tell our board, as I tell our employees, th...
STEVE BALLMER

Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should ...
STEVE SCALISE

I used to get 15-20 bunt hits a season. Now, I'm down to five or six. Infielders still play me i...
STEVE FINLEY

I sold my most valuable possession, but I knew that because I worked at Hewlett Packard, I could buy...
STEVE WOZNIAK

All of my buddies and I wanted to be Cal Ripken.
STEVE CLEVENGER

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different ...
STEVE VOAKE

I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h...
STEVE HARVEY

I've been offered 'Celebrity Fit Club', where you have to take off your shirt and get on...
STEVE SCHIRRIPA

You have a song, and people know it. It's like a calling card for you.
STEVE FORBERT

And those of us who have business opportunities and the capital to do it are going to sit in fear of...
STEVE WYNN

Face-to-face customer feedback refines or validates every component of the startup's business mo...
STEVE BLANK

I support Democrats and Republicans. And I'm telling you that the business community in this com...
STEVE WYNN

It's very difficult to explain to a normal working citizen the implications of what $18 trillion...
STEVE WYNN

I actually had a movie green lit at Disney the same week 'Burlesque' was green lit - a movie...
STEVE ANTIN

Everyone likes a burger now and then, and that's absolutely fine.
STEVE EASTERBROOK

People are afraid because I'm candid. They're always worried I'm going to get into troub...
STEVE MADDEN

The phenomenon of home schooling is a wonderful example of the American can-do attitude. Growing num...
STEVE FORBES

That godfather of the modern action blockbuster, 'The Godfather,' is entirely character driv...
STEVE ERICKSON

No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine...
STEVE FORBES

Lorne finally said, Do the Blues Brothers thing. The response was amazing. People went nuts.
STEVE CROPPER

I think there are people out there writing original bluegrass songs, but it's hard to get them o...
STEVE MARTIN

I feel good about being able to take bluegrass on to television like 'Letterman' and 'Th...
STEVE MARTIN

As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p...
STEVE EARLE

Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!.
STEVE MARTIN

When you do an animated movie - at least the ones that I've been a part of - you never see any o...
STEVE CARELL

We had gone out on the road in 94 and 95 for a three month American tour, and we realised, as did ou...
STEVE BROWN

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Br...
STEVE TRUGLIA

A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream.
STEVE TRUGLIA

Western civilization is the most successful civilization the world has ever seen. And some of the re...
STEVE KING

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Sax...
STEVE LACY

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.
STEVE GUTTENBERG

I'm not bragging, but just going Sunday to Sunday, it will be a real rare game when I don't ...
STEVE LARGENT

We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this...
STEVE JOBS

I am a self-made brat.
STEVE WYNN

We have the insight and the tools to identify and bring to fruition the dormant talent that our arti...
STEVE VAI

I don't have time, energy, or interest in hating the haters; I'm too busy loving the lovers.
STEVE MARABOLI

In the case of music, Apple got out early. They were the first to really recognize that you couldn&#...
STEVE BALLMER

I guess I just always imagined that I was going to die, like, somehow on top. I was going to, like, ...
STEVE-O

There's so much mudslinging going on, and people get so turned off by that. It seems like neithe...
STEVE CHABOT

The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than yo...
STEVE YOUNG

I bled a lot. I got hit across the face. We couldn't film for seven days. I got hit, whacked, un...
STEVE IRWIN

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have ...
STEVE JOBS

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -...
STEVE ALLEN

It's the most complete team they've had since they had Xavier Lee and Kenny Scott.
STEVE ALLEN

Other than chauffeuring, (our duties are) helping them find places to eat and helping them find nece...
STEVE ALLEN

I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

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I pick projects according to how fascinating they are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and sailboats.

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