Climbing Quotes - Page 24

• You get kinder when you get into my age range. You think back to how really unkind you were, and how cynical you were and how you tossed things away and you tossed people away, and you didn't care because you were climbing some mountain that you thought you needed to be on top of.

  Frank Langella

  Thinking, People, Cynical

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee predators. This shift made it necessary for the men to actively protect the women and their babies. Only as a result of this protection were women able to give birth in shorter intervals, perhaps once every two or three years. This meant that they could produce offspring about twice as frequently as apes. I would be willing to bet that this rapid reproduction is one of the reasons why we dominate the world today, and not the apes.

  Frans de Waal

  Baby, Men, Years

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• Experience comes from bad judgment.

  Mark Twain

  Learning Something New, Hiking, Judgement

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• Humans had spent thousands of years climbing out of caves and building technology so they could reach the moon and live in caves again.

  Jack Campbell

  Moon, Technology, Years

  John G. Hemry, Jack Campbell (2000). “Stark's War”, p.73, Penguin

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• Just like a mountain goat climbing very steep and dangerous land to lick salt from the rocks, man also should take high risks to get what he wants!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Rocks, Land

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• Mountains make poor receptacles for dreams.

  Jon Krakauer

  Dream, Mountain, Poor

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.154, Pan Macmillan

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• Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success

  Stephen Covey

  Leadership, Climbing Up, Top Management

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.120, Mango Media Inc.

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• One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.

  Samantha Bond

  Memories, Men, Three

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• My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.

  Madeline Carroll

  Sports, Football, Brother

  "Meet Newcomer (and Flipped Star!) Madeline Carroll". Teen Mag Interview, www.seventeen.com. August 31, 2010.

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• I love surfing, rock climbing, cycling - all that stuff. But it's just amazing that I can inspire people with my running. It's humbling, really.

  Dean Karnazes

  Running, Cycling, Rocks

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• What draws me to the type of snowboarding that I'm doing now is, I go through every emotion in life when I'm climbing these mountains. The fear. The anticipation before that. Getting to the top and the joy of standing on top, and then the adrenaline on going down, and then the kind of overwhelming emotions that I get at the bottom. That whole process is really addicting, and makes me feel alive.

  Jeremy Jones

  Snowboarding, Joy, Mountain

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• So I always liked to sing, and apparently when I was about four or five I also started to be attracted to pianos and musical instruments. Whenever we went to a friend's house, I vaguely recall climbing up on the piano, plunking on it, and trying to figure it out. So my parents figured I was interested and asked me if I wanted to take piano lessons. I said sure.

  Vienna Teng

  Piano, House, Parent

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• The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All of us have our reasons, innumerable, personal and complex. From many points of view a climb is a challenge we must meet.

  Gaston Rebuffat

  Dream, Autumn, Views

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• Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Children, Height, Should

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• There's no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing

  Ranulph Fiennes

  Running, Adventure, Weather

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• If you don't set your goals based upon your Mission Statement, you may be climbing the ladder of success only to realize, when you get to the top, you're on the WRONG building.

  Stephen Covey

  Goal, Ladders, May

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• There's no such thing as bad weather - only the wrong clothes.

  Billy Connolly

  Being Happy, Running, Adventure

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• To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Time, Years, Snow

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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• Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.

  Edmund Hillary

  People, Disaster, Casual

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• If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.

  Behdad Sami

  Doors, Trying, Doe

  Twitter post from Jan 10, 2017

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• I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

  Ted Turner

  Imagination, Mountain, Fireman

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• We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

  George Leigh Mallory

  Happiness, Mean, Enjoy Life

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• At the edge of the cliffs, the wind is a smack, and D-day becomes wildly clear: climbing that cutting edge into the bullets.

  John Vinocur

  Cutting, Wind, D Day

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• Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.

  Louis C. K.

  Two, People, Lasts

  Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. June 20, 2011.

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• To be a photojournalist takes experience, skill, endurance, energy, salesmanship, organization, wheedling, climbing, gatecrashing, etc. - plus an eye and patience.

  Ruth Orkin

  Eye, Skills, Organization

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