Erik Weihenmayer Quotes

I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

Erik Weihenmayer

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• Danger is ever-present in life, more for some than others.

  

  T.I.
  • Life
  • Present
  • Danger

• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• The mind serves best when it's anchored in the Word of God. There is no danger then of becoming an intellectual without integrity.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • God
  • Mind
  • Integrity

• You can tell someone you love them first. You can try to speak only the truth for a whole week. You can jump out of an airplane or spend Christmas Day all by your lonesome. You can help people who need help and fight real bad guys. You can dance fast or take an improv class or do one of those Ironman things… Adventure and danger can be good for your heart and soul.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • People
  • Good
  • Real

• When a house is on fire and you know that there are people in it, it is a sin to straighten pictures in that house. When the world about you is in great danger, works that are in themselves not sinful can be quite wrong.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.

  

  Konrad Zuse
  • Great
  • Humans
  • Danger

• Nobody heeds danger when they're making money.

  

  James Cook
  • Money
  • Danger
  • Heeds

• From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Force
  • Author
  • Danger

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Conditions

• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  

  Virginia Gildersleeve
  • Achieve
  • Danger
  • Sexism

• In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

  

  Socrates
  • Winning
  • Danger
  • Ready

• There are two things a real man likes - danger and play; and he likes woman because she is the most dangerous of play things.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Play
  • Danger

• The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Danger
  • Tyranny
  • Resistance

• I am trying like Klee, to create something that will have a life of its own, that can put me in real danger, a danger which I willingly take on myself.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Real
  • Trying
  • Danger

• danger is a biologic necessity, like dreams. if you face death, for that time, for the period of direct confrontation, you are immortal.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Dream
  • Danger
  • Direct

• Diagnostic reliability isn’t an abstract issue: If doctors can’t agree on what ails their patients, there is no way they can provide proper treatment. When there’s no relationship between diagnosis and cure, a mislabeled patient is bound to be a mistreated patient. You would not want to have your appendix removed when you are suffering from a kidney stone, and you would not want have somebody labeled as “oppositional” when, in fact, his behavior is rooted in an attempt to protect himself against real danger.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Relationship
  • Danger
  • Issue

• I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Business
  • Body
  • Bigger

• NATO will not become involved in partitioning that country, .. We're not going to engage in an operation that will fix demarcation lines. This is one country, and it will remain one country.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Country
  • Lines
  • Involved

• I have little interest in a surgeon who says, "I learned that when I was in medical school. Why should I revisit it?" or who says, "I've done that operation the same way for ten years. Don't bother me with new approaches." I see teaching in the same way.

  

  Carol Ann Tomlinson
  • School
  • Done
  • Teaching

• I like to skin up ski resorts and, for me, being blind, that's nice because it's wide open, with no avalanche danger.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Danger
  • Resorts
  • Avalanches