Climbing Quotes - Page 19

• Climbing is an amazing, unique sport, and I want to share that with as many people as possible. I want to be an ambassador for the sport and raise the profile. I try to take advantage of any opportunity to share climbing with the world.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Unique, Opportunity

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• One of the things that separates climbing from other sports is how independent and personal it is. With most sports, you either win or lose, but climbing is about your own personal experience.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Independent, Winning

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• Climbing is a full-body sport from your fingers to your toes, but at the same time, it's like a dance on the rock. It's about being strong and fit but also graceful and elegant and efficient on the rock.

  Chris Sharma

  Sports, Strong, Rocks

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• Climbing is a process - like yoga or running. We want to go to the spots where we're barely able to hold on. Those are the climbs that force us to become better athletes and grow as climbers.

  Chris Sharma

  Running, Yoga, Athlete

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• Climbing is an artistic, creative thing; it's about being spontaneous, traveling, seeing the world, hanging out. It's a balance of setting goals while enjoying the process, being ambitious without being too competitive.

  Chris Sharma

  Goal, Creative, Balance

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• In climbing, a fundamental thing is to want to do something you've never done before. That's the beauty of climbing, whether you're a girl or boy, seasoned veteran or beginner. You're not sure you'll be able to do this, but you try, and discovering you are capable is an amazing experience and an amazing feeling.

  Chris Sharma

  Girl, Boys, Feelings

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• The rewards we get by being those weird guys going against the grain to me are way more massive than selling a million billion records. I like climbing mountains or going on undersea dives for whales and stuff like that.

  Lupe Fiasco

  Whales, Guy, Mountain

  Interview with Joseph Hooper, www.elle.com. April 15, 2009.

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• The useless search of philosophers for a cause of the universe is a regressus in infinitum (a stepping backwards into the infinite) and resembles climbing up an endless ladder, the recurring question as to the cause of the cause rendering the attainment of a final goal impossible.

  Ludwig Buchner

  Goal, Finals, Ladders

  Ludwig Büchner (1884). “Force and Matter: Or, Principles of the Natural Order of the Universe. With a System of Morality Based Thereon”

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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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• Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Struggle, Voice, Rise Above

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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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• Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction is God.

  Wojciech Kurtyka

  Heart, Blood, Sweat

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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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• Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.

  Chris Darwin

  Wall, Bricks, Hiking In The Mountains

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• Morality, a muzzle for the will; logic, a climbing iron for the mind.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Iron, Mind, Muzzle

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• I love a good wool suit, and I appreciate the fact that it's a natural fiber. I know where it comes from, and I know how it's bred. And it's built to last. It breathes and it feels good. A lot of my climbing and hiking gear is all wool, because I can wear it for a week straight and it doesn't smell. And when you get hot and sweaty in a cold temperature, it stays warm. So your body temperature stays at a good warmth rather than freezing your ass off.

  Jason Clarke

  Smell, Hiking, Appreciate

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• They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Beautiful, Stupid, Mountain

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• There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so perfectly symbolical of human life,--now climbing the hills, now descending into the vales. From the summits he beholds the heavens and the horizon, from the vales he looks up to the heights again. He is treading his old lessons still, and though he may be very weary and travel-worn, it is yet sincere experience.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Travel, Feet

  Henry David Thoreau (1992). “The Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.103, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Life must be lived with courage, with climbing and risks, else there is no happiness, no hope, no true success, no future.

  Jeanette Lee

  Life, Risk, No Hope

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• The message to organizations is this: You have to increase the number of categories of contributing, or the types of career paths, which people can experience as successful. You cannot restrict esteem to the fewer and fewer who will be climbing up the management ladder. You need to have the majority of your people feeling like winners.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Successful, Careers, Organization

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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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• There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.

  Michael Bassey

  Dream, Distance, Secret

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• Many climbers become writers because of the misconceptions about climbing.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Hiking, Mountain Climbers, Mountaineering

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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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• Climbing is one of the few sports in which the arena (the cliffs, the mountains and their specific routes) acquire a notoriety that outpopulates, outshines and outlives the actual athletes.

  Jonathan Waterman

  Sports, Athlete, Hiking

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