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Robert Kurson Quotes

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“It's what a person does at the moment of greatest struggle that shows him who he really is. Some people get that moment. This is my moment. What I do now is what I am.”
— Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: Life
“Always answer the first problem immediately and fully, or you're fucking dead.”
— Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: strategy
“The guy who gets kill is often the guy who got nervous. The guy who doesn't care anymore, 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: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: Life
“As weeks turned to months and Chatterton continued to distinguish himself, he studied himself and others in action, watched soldiers live and die and show courage and break down, paid careful attention to the behavior of men around him, all to divine further insight into the right way to live. Gradually, he distilled certain principles that seemed to him indisputable truths, and he collected these principles like so many medicines in the aid pack of his mind. As he neared the end of his six-month field obligation, he had come to believe these things:

–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.”
— Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: Life
“For four months, Chatterton thought about the right way and the wrong way to live, and he continued to contemplate his principles. As one patrol bled into another and men died, his thinking solidified, and he began to consider that it might have been for these insights that he had come to Vietnam, that when he had looked into forever over the Atlantic as a child and felt sure that there was more on the other side, it was these ideas that were calling him, ideas about how a man should live.”
— Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: Life
“A diver lost or tangled inside a shipwreck has come face-to-face with his maker. Corpses have been recovered inside wrecks–eyes and mouths agape in terror, the poor diver still lost, still blinded, still snagged, still pinned. Yet a curious truth pertains to these perils: rarely does the problem itself kill the diver. Rather, the diver's response to the problem–his panic–likely determines whether he lives or dies.”
— Robert Kurson, Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
Tagged: Life
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