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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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When you write about sports, you're allowed to engage in mischief. Nothing is at stake.
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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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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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Sometimes I've gotten photographs back and people have literally shaven off pieces of me, and I tell them to put it back.
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When someone says, 'Shut up, farmer,' it hurts. It's difficult to explain, but it hurts.
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Customer loyalty comes from consistent experience. They learn to count on you.
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I wept that all must die -'Yet Love,' I cried, 'doth live, and conquer death -'And Time passed by,And breathed on Love, and killed it with his breathEre Death was nigh.More bitter far than allIt was to know that Love could change and die -Hush! for the ages call'The Love of God lives through eternity,And conquers all!'
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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.
