Climbing Quotes - Page 11

• We have made it impossible for children to fall very far—and in so doing, we have robbed them of the joys of climbing high.

  Megan McArdle

  Children, Fall, Joy

  Megan McArdle (2014). “10 Ways to Bounce Back in Business and Life”, p.5, Head of Zeus

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• Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.

  Yoko Ogawa

  Mountain, Cracks, Valleys

  Yoko Ogawa (2009). “The Housekeeper and the Professor: A Novel”, p.34, Picador

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• Everytime I see the Spice Girls, it makes me want to try to fly by
  climbing my roof and strapping bricks to my shoes.

  Eddie Vedder

  Girl, Shoes, Trying

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• I do not have a fear of heights at all. I was the kid who would see how high I could get in the trees. I was always climbing something. But I wasnt allowed to look down; I had to step off completely blind and backwards.

  Kyle Gallner

  Kids, Tree, Height

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are all kinds of ways to challenge ourselves. Some people do it by climbing a mountain or scuba diving. The most profound and challenging ordeals is to drink Ayahuasca. It is in a way the ultimate adventure.

  Graham Hancock

  Adventure, Ayahuasca, People

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• Standing in the nordic nook of the kitchen, I can gaze down at the flimsy-limbed joggers heading south towards the Park. It's nearly as bad as New York. Some of these gasping fatsos, these too-little-too-late artists, they look as though they're running up rising ground, climbing ground. My generation, we started all this. Before, everyone was presumably content to feel like death the whole time. Now they want to feel terrific for ever.

  Martin Amis

  Running, New York, Artist

  Martin Amis (2010). “Money”, p.64, Random House

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• The distinguishing mark of true adventures, is that it is often no fun at all while they are actually happening.

  Kim Stanley

  Funny, Adventure, Mark

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• I don't believe in rules. I would be happy to be climbing a pyramid when I'm 70. And I know I will be.

  Rose McGowan

  Believe, Pyramids, Would Be

  FaceBook post by Rose McGowan from Jul 14, 2011

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• The window-lights, myriads and myriads,Bloom from the walls like climbing flowers.

  Sara Teasdale

  Wall, Flower, Light

  Sara Teasdale (1920). “Flame and Shadow”, p.115, Рипол Классик

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• I have some close friends I keep in touch with. I knit. I watch a little too much TV. I ski, if the weather's right for that. If I can find a group of buddies, I go rock climbing.

  Melissa Leo

  Rocks, Weather, Groups

  "Melissa Leo’s Golden Moment". Interview with Daniel D’Addario, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 17, 2010.

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• I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest-it's only a mountain.

  Junko Tabei

  Nature, Travel, Men

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• I found climbing to be a very tactile sport. There's no ball that is zipping through the air ready to crack you in the head. It is just you and the rock base.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Sports, Rocks, Air

  Source: www.afb.org

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• Climbing is actually a great sport for blind people and that carried me on to climbing bigger and bigger mountains, snowy mountains, ice faces, and developing different techniques to be able to do that.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Sports, Ice, People

  Source: www.afb.org

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• Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  People, Simplicity, Quality

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• Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.

  Steve Roper

  Funny, Names, Lists

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• Women often focus more on staying friends, which is as important as climbing the mountain.

  Arlene Blum

  Focus, Mountain, Important

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• The Soul which is approaching its' liberation, as it looks back over past lives... down the vistas of the centuries along which it has slowly been climbing,... is able to see there the way in which the bonds were made, the causes which set it in motion. It is able to see how many of those causes have worked themselves out and... how many... are still working themselves out.

  Annie Besant

  Karma, Past, Soul

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• I say all the time that if you really want to feel alive, it's not through striving for yourself. If you really want to feel alive, it's not through trying to get more things or get more success or climbing a corporate ladder or getting to the top. Because, once you get there, you realize that you don't really find happiness in that. If you want to feel alive and if you want to feel peace and happiness, give your life away. Do something that is outside of yourself for someone else. I think that's the way to truly feel alive.

  Natalie Grant

  Thinking, Giving, Trying

  "Natalie Grant’s whirlwind success continues with 'Hurricane'". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• It might sound crazy, but filming in a conflict zone, in Afghanistan, and being a female filmmaker was the easy part. I found people open and understanding of the importance and beauty of filmic storytelling. I never had to explain why Jake Bryant, my Director of Photography, and I were climbing up a ladder to get a high shot, or running ahead to get an arrival shot, or filming weeks after weeks, months after months, collecting so much material. The process was respected and honored.

  Pietra Brettkelly

  Photography, Running, Crazy

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Putin did not head the KGB, never has. Putin was a mid-level nobody there. Putin was one of those guys in the KGB who was a climber. He was forever hoping, climbing that ladder, trying to get to the head spot.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Kgb, Forever, Guy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• There may be more to learn from climbing the same mountain a hundred times than by climbing a hundred different mountains.

  Richard R. Nelson

  Motivational, Hiking, Mountain

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• What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly? ... wearying himself with climbing upon every ascent, ... bruising himself with continual falls, and at last breaking his neck? And all this, from an imagination that it would be glorious to have the eyes of people looking up at him, and mighty happy to eat, and drink, and sleep, at the top of the highest trees in the kingdom.

  William Law

  Silly, Fall, Sleep

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• For nearly 11 years, now, we have been on this mission; we call it, "climbing Mt. Sustainability", a mountain higher than Everest, to meet at that point at the top that symbolizes zero footprint-zero environmental impact. Sustainable: taking nothing, doing no harm.

  Ray Anderson

  Zero, Responsibility, Years

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• that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.

  Stacy Allison

  Sports, Who I Am, Expression

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• It's kind of too movie-like to say, "When I started climbing, I knew I wanted to climb Everest some day." Instead, I just started rock climbing as a kid, when I was 16, and then I started teaching and a buddy of mine started taking me out.

  Erik Weihenmayer

  Teaching, Kids, Rocks

  Source: www.summitdaily.com

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