Motivation Is The Single Most Important Factor

I Always Refused To Give In If There Was Some Argument With My Father. Whether It Was True Or Not, I Refused To Admit It And So Often I Would - Well, Tell Lies, Perhaps. I Would Either Do That Or Change The Story. Particularly If I Felt That My Father Was Being Unjust, Then I Was Very Strongly Motivated To Not Accept His Ruling.

It's Not A Real Adventure When You Have To Pay For It.

When I Was 50 Years Old, I Actually Decided To Draw Up A List Of Half A Dozen Things That I Really Hadn't Done Very Well, And I Was Going To Make Efforts To Improve. One Of Them Was Skiing, And I Really Did Become A Very Much Better Skier.

I Would Have Said That During The Early Days Of My Life There Was Never A Moment When I Wasn't Fit. We Worked Extremely Hard On The Beekeeping Line, And Both My Brother And I Used To Compete, Particularly When We Were Collecting Honey. We Would Each Have An 80-pound Box Of Honey And We Would Race Up The Hill On The Tuakau Track And Race Back Down. We Just Raced All The Time, And We Used To Keep Very Fit Indeed.

George Lowe Was The One Who Opened The Mail, And George Started Laughing Uproariously And I Looked Up At Him In Astonishment And Said, "what's So Funny?" And He Said, "you've Been Given A Title", And I Said, "ha, Ha, Big Joke." I Didn't Believe Him But, Sure Enough, In This Letter It Indicated That The Queen Had Given Me A Title.