Climbing Quotes - Page 14

• I think one of the things we learned from the physicists and also the theoretical biologists is the idea that when you're dealing with very complex systems you're going to get a large variety of behavior which can be interpreted as hill climbing, but hill climbing with a lot of modifications, hill climbing with big jumps occasionally.

  Kenneth Arrow

  Thinking, Ideas, Hills

  Source: www.minneapolisfed.org

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• It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy.

  George Carlin

  Views, Comedy, Profit

  Source: reprints.longform.org

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• Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

  Elena Ferrante

  Guilt, Ladders, Economic

  "Elena Ferrante: 'Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing'". Interview with Deborah Orr, www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2016.

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• There's something about shooting webs out of my wrists and climbing up things that just makes me happy.

  Chris Hardwick

  Shooting, Wrists, Make Me Happy

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.

  Chris Sharma

  Appreciate, Six Months, Knee Injuries

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.

  Jeremy Piven

  Stage Actors, Records, Broadway

  Source: collider.com

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• In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

  Jo Nesbo

  Sports, Wall, Rocks

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• (I was) happily contended to be climbing the heights and the clouds by the brush method.. ...rendering the God-spirit in the mountains.

  Marsden Hartley

  Clouds, Mountain, Height

  "Marsden Hartley". Book by Gail R. Scott, p. 8, 1988.

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• As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?

  Nancy Bird Walton

  Mother, Book, Jumping

  Interview with George Negus on "George Negus Tonight", March 8, 2004.

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• Bouldering is the synthesis of all skills needed for climbing

  Ron Kauk

  Skills, Synthesis, Needed

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• I want to solve a climbing problem in the mountains, not in the sporting goods store.

  Reinhold Messner

  Mountain, Want, Problem

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• The number one metaphor I have in my mind for writing a screenplay is that...you're trying to climb a mountain blindfolded. And the funny thing about that is, you think, 'Okay, that's hard because you're climbing up a rock face, and you don't know where you're going, and you don't know where the top is, you can't see what's below you...' But actually the hardest part about climbing a mountain blindfolded is just finding the mountain.

  Michael Arndt

  Writing, Thinking, Numbers

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• You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Feet, Oxygen

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• My father told me never to take my foot off a ladder to kick at someone who was kicking at me. When I did that, I would no longer be climbing. While they are kicking, my father told me, I should keep stepping. They can kick only one time. If I continued to climb, they would be left behind. In trying to hurt me, to impede my progress, they would get left behind because they allowed themselves to get sidetracked from their agenda.

  Steve Harvey

  Inspirational, Hurt, Father

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• Another striding instance is recorded by the very intelligent traveler regarding a representation of the fall of our first parents, sculptured in the magnificent temple of Ipsambul in Nubia. He says that a very exact representation of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden is to be seen in that cave, and that the serpent climbing round the tree is especially delineated, and the whole subject of the tempting of our first parents most accurately exhibited.

  Godfrey Higgins

  Fall, Intelligent, Garden

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• Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

  Jim Bridwell

  Sports, Kings, Fun

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• I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Hunting, Fishing, Nuts

  "We Interviewed Jeff Foxworthy | Show at Redfest". Do512 Interview, do512.com. May, 2014.

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• Yeah, I mean, climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster. So, it was great to be able to get to do it.

  Andy Serkis

  Passion, Mean, Mountain

  "Andy Serkis Interview – Talks THE HOBBIT, TINTIN, BURKE & HARE and SEX & DRUGS & ROCK & ROLL". Interview with Ron Messer, collider.com. May 16, 2010.

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• But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Solitude, Mountain

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• [On social climbing:] Everything that goes up must come down.

  Maxine Cheshire

  Social, Murphys Law, Sociability

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• ... they always tell us it's getting to the top that's hard. Climbing's the easy part. Sliding down the other side, that's the hard part.

  Susan Dunlap

  Sides, Easy, Hard

  Susan Dunlap (1995). “High Fall”, Dell Publishing Company

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• Along with rock climbing, I hike and I like to go to the beach, anything outdoors and anything that takes me out of the everyday.

  Christa B. Allen

  Beach, Rocks, Everyday

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down... So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. In climbing, take careful note of the difficulties along your way; for as you go up , you can observe them. Coming down, you will no longer see them, but you will know they are there if you have observed them well.

  Joseph Jaworski

  Motivational, Forever, Doe

  Joseph Jaworski (2011). “Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership”, p.106, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• The greatest and most inspiring mountain climbing achievements in history are not so much stories of individual achievement, but are stories of the extraordinary power of a unified, talented, prepared team that stays loyally committed to one another and to their shared vision to the end.

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Team, Achievement

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• None may wholly escape the good of Nature, however imperfectly exposed to her blessings. The minister will not preach a perfectly flat and sedimentary sermon after climbing a snowy peak; and the fair play and tremendous impartiality of Nature, so tellingly displayed, will surely affect the after pleadings of the lawyer. Fresh air at least will get into everybody, and the cares of mere business will be quenched like the fires of a sinking ship.

  John Muir

  Blessing, Fire, Air

  John Muir (2015). “JOHN MUIR’S CALIFORNIA COLLECTION: My First Summer in the Sierra, Picturesque California, The Mountains of California, The Yosemite & Our National Parks (Illustrated): Adventure Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Nature Writings and Wilderness Essays”, p.217, e-artnow

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