Phil Keoghan Quotes
With any good story, you need the adversary, the heroes and villains. You need a good mixture to make it work.
I love stories. When I tell a story, I try to think of people sitting around a crackling campfire.
Riding a bicycle is about getting back to basics. It's good for the waistline and it's good for the wallet, is what I'm saying.
We have a gift of life. What we do with that gift is dependent on the choices we make. The people who we spend time with. The things that we go out to do every day.
There are times where you can't always get paid to do the things you really want to do. What really epitomizes your dream job is the job that pays you to do what you want to do.
All of us make assumptions about what somebody's potential is, because we all think of why somebody can or can't do something. We make terrible assumptions.
Schools often box kids into predefined categories. But we don't know what amazing ideas, inventions, cures, and contributions all these youths really have.
There are amazing teachers, but the system doesn't always allow them to address the individual needs of a child.
If you look around my room, you see lots of lists. I'm inspired by what's up on the wall.
I'm a big fan of human dynamics. Nothing fascinates me more than really interesting people and human dynamics.
Our schools are filled with this potential energy, and we need to create an environment for that energy to manifest itself.
I've always been about setting goals. Then when I had a near death experience at nineteen, it made it even more important to strive to achieve certain things.
People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.
I really wish we could stay longer in the countries we visit, but I've been lucky to have visited most of them before, because I've done a tremendous amount of travel.
Inevitably you're going to be delayed somewhere. Always have a book. Always have a movie. Always have a notebook. And then always have a sense of humour.
Where we really effect change, in terms of creating a passionate work force, is by listening to kids early.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't go to college or you shouldn't finish your degree, but sometimes people have a very clear vision about what they want to do, and they just want to get on with it.
I'm all about nonfiction. I rarely read fiction. I like to read about things that really happened, facts, real life situations. That's what inspires me.
Stories have inspired me all my life. I like reading about what other people have done and it inspires me to share my own stories, and encourage people to make their own life stories.
After more than twenty-five years in television, there are days when I feel like I'm just beginning, because I'm learning new things. I want to be better all the time.
A good storyteller can hold everybody captive without the special effects of Hollywood.
When I hear people watched my film and then got on their own bikes and rode, whether a few miles or across America, to achieve their own goals - that excites me. It's the power of a story.
I try to encourage people to identify the things in life that they really want to do, so that over a period of time they can design or steer their life towards those things.