Climbing Quotes - Page 21

• 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 anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.

  Jim Bridwell

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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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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• I had a bad knee injury when I was about seventeen. I wasn't able to climb for about six months. It was kind of like a transformative time for me, because it was really hard for me not to be able to climb. It forced me to appreciate things without just climbing.

  Chris Sharma

  Appreciate, Six Months, Knee Injuries

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• I really learned to approach climbing not just with a pure athletic mentality, but also to appreciate all these beautiful places we get to go to.

  Chris Sharma

  Beautiful, Appreciate, Athletic

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• In particular, with climbing, we're climbing on these surfaces that Mother Nature has created. We search out the most perfect pieces of rock. It's so amazing that these formations are so perfect for climbing on. It's almost as if they were created for climbing.

  Chris Sharma

  Mother, Rocks, Perfect

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Chris Sharma, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Climbing trees is still one of my favorite things to do. A tree and a good book and I'm happy.

  Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

  Book, Tree, Favorites Things

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Spiritual guidance needs guidance. It's like comparing walking on the ground and mountain climbing. Once you learn how to walk, you can walk on the ground by yourself, but if you want to climb Mount Everest, you need a guide.

  Seyyed Hossein Nasr

  Spiritual, Mountain, Needs

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I suffer from vertigo. It's paralyzing in extreme situations. The most scared I've been as an adult was trying to conquer that fear by going climbing in Wales.

  Hari Kunzru

  Suffering, Trying, Adults

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• I'm a country boy. I grew up kicking around the woods, riding dirt bikes, playing football, climbing rocks and all that good stuff, so that's always been fun.

  Taylor Kinney

  Football, Country, Fun

  "Taylor Kinney Exclusive Interview the Vampire Diaries". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 21, 2010.

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• In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.

  Jo Nesbo

  Sports, Wall, Rocks

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• I kind of entered a flow state. I've been there before while climbing. You are not thinking ahead. You are just thinking about what is in front of you each second.

  Aron Ralston

  Thinking, Flow, Kind

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• I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.

  Sissy Spacek

  Brother, Tree, Idyllic

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• I learned to basically pull my own weight, just do my own thing. I spent a lot of time alone and I loved it. It was actually really great because to the present day I love spending time alone. I go bicycling alone, go climbing alone and I just love being with myself and observing myself and learning something.

  Sebastian Thrun

  Love Is, Weight, Spending Time

  "A Beautiful Mind" by Bianca Bosker, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 13,2012.

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• We as children went up the mountain to find feed for livestock, like goats, cows and horses, and because in the winter time we would light the fire in the house, we would climb the mountain to collect firewood as well. Because of that, I suppose I became used to climbing mountains.

  Tamae Watanabe

  Horse, Children, Winter

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• There are so many aspects to the sport. It never gets boring because you always do something different. Maybe you train really hard on a sport climbing and get tunnel vision for a while, but as soon as you burn out a bit, you concentrate on another aspect, like traveling. You see the world through the vehicle of climbing.

  Wolfgang Gullich

  Sports, Tunnels, Vision

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• Sensual pleasures are like soap bubbles, sparkling, effervescent. The pleasures of intellect are calm, beautiful, sublime, ever enduring and climbing upward to the borders of the unseen world.

  John H Aughey

  Beautiful, Sublime, Sensual

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• I actually just rock-climbed when I was away on vacation and now I'm searching out rock climbing gyms. That's my new obsession for 2013.

  Shay Mitchell

  Vacation, Rocks, Obsession

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• I like reading, writing, hiking, camping, free running, surfing, rock climbing, long boarding, and so much more.

  Nolan Gould

  Running, Reading, Writing

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