Climbing Quotes - Page 29

• I don't have that drive to be in this field, climbing up, doing bit parts in movies to make a big movie. But I'm lucky I get to also do acting - it's fun. I should probably just take an acting class on the weekends - that would be enough for me.

  Jemima Kirke

  Fun, Weekend, Class

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

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• To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.

  Aristophanes

  Lying, Essentials, Three

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• It's the climbing that makes the man. Getting to the top is an extra reward.

  Robert Lipsyte

  Men, Rewards, He Man

  Robert Lipsyte (1967). “The contender”

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• God, give me hills to climb, And strength for climbing!

  Arthur Guiterman

  Giving, Hills, Give Me

  Arthur Guiterman (1918). “The Mirthful Lyre”

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• You don't play triathlon. You play soccer; it's fun. You play baseball. Triathlon is work that you can leave you crumpled in a heap, puking on the roadside. It's the physical brutality of climbing Mount Everest without the great view from the top of the world. What kind of person keeps coming back for more of that?

  Chris McCormack

  Soccer, Sports, Baseball

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• I am climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa this Summer as a personal physical goal for myself, but also as a way to bring on sponsors and raise awareness and funds to help benefit the programs and initiatives of Chefs for Humanity.

  Cat Cora

  Summer, Goal, Humanity

  "Climbing a Mountain for Hunger" by Cat Cora, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2011.

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• I was so grateful to have made 'Into the Wild' before I made 'Speed Racer' because on 'Speed Racer' I was indoors every single day, every single scene, on a green screen. Some of the time, just to pass the time, I would think back to climbing mountains in Alaska. That really helped me.

  Emile Hirsch

  Grateful, Thinking, Alaska

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• The escalator seems to me to typify this: It leads us up, by climbing on our behalf. Yes, it doesn't even climb, it flies. Each step carries its shopper aloft, as though afraid he might change his mind. It takes us up to merchandise we might not have bothered to climb an ordinary flight of steps for.

  Joseph Roth

  Mind, Might, Steps

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• Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Beautiful, Practice, People

  Chogyam Trungpa (2001). “Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology”, p.66, Shambhala Publications

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• When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

  Royal Robbins

  Feet, Long, Three

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• Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind.

  Royal Robbins

  Inspirational, Dream, Achievement

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• Where I'm is one of those stair climbing machines the agent has installed. You climb and climb forever and never get off the ground. You're trapped in your hotel room. It's the mystical sweat love lodge experience of our time, the only sort of Indian vision quest we can schedule into our daily planner.Our Stair Master to Heaven.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Love, Sweat, Forever

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• Life's a climb, but the view's great.

  Lucas Till

  Views, Climbs

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• Reaching that windswept perch, I decided, would cleanse my spirit and heal my wounds. More than that, it would send me home with a title: The First American Woman to Climb Everest.

  Stacy Allison

  Home, Titles, Firsts

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• A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

  Jim Bridwell

  Adventure, Work Out, Uncertainty

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• Just put one foot in front of the other.

  Austin Peck

  Running, Perseverance, Hiking

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• Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

  Tal Ben-Shahar

  Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

  Tal Ben-Shahar (2002). “The Question of Happiness: On Finding Meaning, Pleasure, and the Ultimate Currency”, p.15, iUniverse

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• Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.

  Edward Whymper

  Thinking, Hiking, Mountain

  1871 Scrambles Amongst the Alps.

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• I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.

  Bruce Feiler

  Memories, School, Feet

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• The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

  David Breashears

  Stress, Character, Essence

  David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster

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• Mexican homes as a rule are closed off to the world by high blank walls of yellowish masonry, topped with broken glass to discourage escaladores, or climbing burglars. The gardens and fountains and other delights are hidden, as in an Arab city.

  Charles Portis

  Wall, Home, Garden

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• On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

  Soseki Natsume

  Perseverance, Vines, Charcoal

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• Life is easy when you're hot. But what happens when the ball bounces the other way? You just keep getting back up and climbing up.

  Bill Walton

  Getting Back Up, Hot, Balls

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• Art is sexy! Art is money-sexy! Art is money-sexy-social-climbing-fantastic!

  Thomas Hoving

  Sexy, Art, Fantastic

  "Art struck", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2000.

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• When feet doesn't want to hold you, you climb with your head. Maybe it isn't the natural order of things, but isn't it better to walk with your head than to think with your feet, as it happens so frequently?

  Rene Daumal

  Thinking, Order, Feet

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