Climbing Quotes - Page 15

• 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, Goal, Growth

  Yvon Chouinard (2016). “Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual”, p.211, Penguin

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• I've done archery for about six weeks, and rock climbing, tree climbing - and combat, running and vaulting. But also yoga and things like that, to stay catlike!

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Running, Yoga, Rocks

  "Ennifer Lawrence On 'Hunger Games,' 'Transformers' Announces World Premiere In Today's Dailies" by Josh Wigler, www.mtv.com. May 23, 2011.

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• I would also suggest that any aspiring writer begin with short stories. These days, I meet far too many young writers who try to start off with a novel right off, or a trilogy, or even a nine-book series. That's like starting in at rock climbing by tackling Mt. Everest. Short stories help you learn your craft.

  George R. R. Martin

  Book, Rocks, Insightful

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• The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when they are taking off, or when they are climbing, or when they are forming up. Don't think you can defend the bomber by circling around him. It's good for the bombers morale, and bad for tactics.

  Robin Olds

  Thinking, Enemy, Bombers

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• The plane seems exultant now, even arrogant. We did it, we did it! We're up, above you. We were dependant on you just now, prisoners fawning on you for favors, for wind and light. But now, we are free. We are up! We are off! Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring- a sustained note of power and joy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Light, Wind, Joy

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• It's the maritime equivalent of rock climbing.

  Cesar Romero

  Rocks, Rock Climbing, Maritime

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• Self-mastery is a challenge for every individual. Only we can control our appetites and passions. Self-mastery cannot be bought by money or fame. It is the ultimate test of our character. It requires climbing out of the deep valleys of our lives and scaling our own Mount Everests.

  James E. Faust

  Passion, Character, Self

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• It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.

  Stephen Covey

  Wall, Hard Work, Priorities

  Stephen R. Covey (2004). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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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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• In this way the climber faces his second deadly threat. The first is naturally the risk of killing the. Second is immersed in the deceitfulness of mental and believing that you are worth as much as the public image.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Believe, Risk, Way

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• When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy the quiet evening hours it is beautiful; a hero who always succeeds may not have time to enjoy such things.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Beautiful, Hero, Mean

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• To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.

  Alain Robert

  Drinking, Eating

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• The whole purpose of climbing something like Everest is to effect some sort of spiritual and physical gain. But if you compromise the process you’re an asshole when you start out and an asshole when you get back.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Spiritual, Purpose, Gains

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• Climbers are a universal tribe: we share the knowledge that things are not important. Experience is important. Feeling is important.

  Steve House

  Feelings, Important, Tribes

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• Climbing is so fun and such a good experience, that I think it's important not to take it too seriously. It's not the end of the world - or the entire world either.

  Chris Sharma

  Fun, Thinking, Important

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• Climbing does not mean just competition and performance. It has other qualities that are important: going on trips, meeting people, seeing other cultures.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Mean, Other Cultures, People

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• Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.

  Doug Scott

  Commitment, Weather, Risk

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• During the sixties, all the risk-type sports were very popular, because everybody was rebelling against their parents, or rebelling against the whole system. But those days are over. This is the day of conservatism.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Sports, Parent, Risk

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• When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.

  Galen Rowell

  Challenges, Mountain, World

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• After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.

  Hermann Buhl

  Should, Found, Ability

  Reinhold Messner, Horst Höfler, Hermann Buhl (2000). “Hermann Buhl: climbing without compromise”, The Mountaineers Books

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• My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.

  Royal Robbins

  Ambition, Thinking, Goal

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• I look at climbing not so much as standing on the top as seeing the other side. There are always other horizons in front of you, other horizons to go beyond and that's what I like about climbing.

  Chris Bonington

  Horizon, Looks, Sides

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• I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Mean, Thinking, Risk

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• I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the effort. This overzealous attitude is what creates religious fanatics, body Nazis, and athletes who are exceedingly dull to converse with.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Religious, Attitude, Athlete

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• My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.

  Galen Rowell

  Passion, People, Giving

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