It is not easy to be a creator at the higher levels, and at the highest it is often agony. All creators agree that
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Alex Zanardi, race car champion and amputee
97 and 98 CART champion Alex Zanardi returned to the racetrack to finish the race he did not complete in 01 when he crashed,
Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes
While completing the longest unsupported crossing of the Antartic continent in 1993, he pulled a 485 pound sledge behind him for 95 days, losing
David Halberstam
I am not sure why I grew up loving to fish so much, why the pursuit of it has given me so much purpose
bobsledder Tod Hays
“I have hung around long enough, and searched far enough, and found something I had a knack for.” After being a bull rider, college
spends 274 days rowing across the Pacific
8,000 miles, at about 20 miles a day, encountering sharks who tried to ram his small boat, and almost getting run over by a
America’s Cup/commercialism
So instead of sailors such as Dennis Connor and Russell Coutts, both 3 time Cup winners, running the event, its billionairs like Larry Ellison
surfing money, brothers Andy and Bruce Irons
world title contenders like Andy pull in from 950K to 1.3M a year from a combination of sources. There are contest purses worth about
job survey
In a survey made in June of 04 asking 187 construction executives “what do you most want from your job” More than 54% indicated
John Jewkes on inventions
In 1958 British economist John Jewkes assembled a representative list of about 60 major inventions from the previous half century, ranging from acrylic fiber