Mark Twight Quotes

• Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

  Mark Twight

  Crush, Men, Challenges

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• Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  Mark Twight

  Success, Meaningful, Hard Work

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• You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  Mark Twight

  Expectations, Environmental, Peers

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• Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

  Mark Twight

  Sacrifice, Effort, Sometimes

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• Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.

  Mark Twight

  Art, Pain, Safety

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• One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

  Mark Twight

  Three, Week, Hours

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• Punish the body to perfect the soul.

  Mark Twight

  Perfect, Soul, Body

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• It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

  Mark Twight

  Fun, Serious

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.9, The Mountaineers Books

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• Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

  Mark Twight

  Wake Up

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• So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

  Mark Twight

  Tattoo, Foundation, Stuff

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• I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

  Mark Twight

  Mean, Emotional, Climbing

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• We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

  Mark Twight

  Events, May, Outcomes

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books

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• Everything costs something everyone pays

  Mark Twight

  Cost, Pay

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• Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

  Mark Twight

  Lying, Cutting, Incompetence

  Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”

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• Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

  Mark Twight

  Consequence

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• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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• The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

  Mark Twight

  Simple, Alaska, Facts

  Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”

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• Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

  Mark Twight

  Attitude, Danger, Casual

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.171, The Mountaineers Books

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• ...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

  Mark Twight

  Memories, Ambition, Sleep

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.26, The Mountaineers Books

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• I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

  Mark Twight

  Borders, Rewards, Sensations

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• Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

  Mark Twight

  Spectators, Participants

  Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.157, The Mountaineers Books

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• Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

  Mark Twight

  Climbing

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