I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.
Interpretation
David Attenborough reflects on his resilience and adaptability in facing the challenges of extensive travel.
In this quote, David Attenborough highlights how he copes with the physical and emotional stress that often accompanies international travel for work. His ability to quickly adjust to new environments demonstrates a broader wisdom about human adaptability and the importance of finding balance in a demanding profession.
In practice
This quote could be shared in a motivational speech about overcoming challenges in your career.
I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of preserving ourselves, of that I'm sure. But whether our lives will be as rich as they are now is another question.
I'm against this huge globalisation on the basis of economic advantage.
I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed the climatic balance. Of course it has. There is no valid argument for denial.
There's a small worm called Loa Loa Filariasis. This parasite can survive in one environment exclusively- namely, underneath the skin and inside the eyes of human beings. Children and the elderly in tropical regions (usually the poorest) are the most widely affected. A painful, slow death is virtually certain. The worm can actually live in the host for 17 years before the host finally dies.
The fundamental issue is the moral issue.
It is vital that there is a narrator figure whom people believe. That's why I never do commercials. If I started saying that margarine was the same as motherhood, people would think I was a liar.
Where quality is the thing sought after, the thing of supreme quality is cheap, whatever the price one has to pay for it.
The most important quality for an investor is temperament, not intellect. You need a temperament that neither derives great pleasure from being with the crowd or against the crowd.
Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.
I think one of the defining moments of adulthood is the realization that nobody's going to take care of you. That you have to do the heavy lifting while you're here. And when you don't, well, you suffer the consequences.
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out.
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