Erik Weihenmayer Quotes
People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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I am very lucky, because for the most part people are very nice to me, and I am still able to go about my life and ride the subway and all that.
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The recession's high unemployment rates may have encouraged people to start sole proprietorships, but there are many obstacles in the way of growing a company to create jobs.
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I think to get a title shot, you need to have some expressive winnings.
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As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.
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The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.
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My primary ambition is to be a fiction writer... Being a critic wasn't an aspiration of mine.
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I get a feeling about where a teammate is going to be. A lot of times, I can turn and pass without even looking.
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We are acknowledging the close personal nature of our 10 years at war and the strong bonds of fidelity that Marines have for one another, especially for those fellow Marines who we have lost.
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I call myself an actor. I always wanted to be one.
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I would leave school every day and walk to my grandparents' house under the El because everyone worked. I was 6 and walking home alone from school. It was a different city and a different time.
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I'm a redneck.
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The biggest difference with Twitter and writing long form is you're part of a virtual community where you know people, or think you know them, through their links.
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If I'm dehydrated, my muscles feel almost squeaky.
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Charlie would be so proud of what these young people are accomplishing today and, in true Charlie fashion, would encourage them to walk to the very edge of their comfort zone and then take another step.
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When we started making 'Borgen,' no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of 'The Killing' because it's basically all about Danish politics.
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My dad wouldn't buy me tight pants. I had to get my own money to buy them.
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People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.
