Tim Cahill Quotes

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

My biggest change is what is important to me, and what is not. What's worthy worrying about, and what is not. When we're younger, we tend to spend too much time worrying and going over the unnecessary. I'm no longer running the hamster wheel.

When I go on vacation, I take very few clothes and a whole lot of books. It's the most soothing thing in the world. Reading 'Moby-Dick' is like being in a time machine. I almost feel as excited as the first time I read it and I always find something new.

I have my best ideas when I am alone.

We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

Taking time to sit back and watch and think about what you've seen is important. Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

You know, now it's sinking in. It's taken me a long time to realize - and it is sinking in - how important this book is. And I have a certain distance now. I've done it such a long time ago.

Distance not only gives nostalgia, but perspective, and maybe objectivity.

If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.

It's taken me longer still to realize what a short span there is between those life experiences and the rest of your life. That's a job for the people who lived through it.

What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure.

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms.

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance.

Sometimes, you know - I think, with a lot of things, at the time, everything is extremely upsetting, and then you look back on it, and it actually can be sort of funny.

I learn something every time I go into the mountains.

I can solve every problem a year later.

What could be wiser and to give people who can think the leisure in which to do it.

Life must be understood backwards. But it must be lived forwards.

There's something to be said about being able to be retrospective about a certain age as opposed to just in it.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.

Some things get clearer as you look back on them.

Meru was the most challenging climb of my life. Not once but twice.