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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There's a lot of things lost in the Digital Age.
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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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I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.
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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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In a way, he lost some of himself, some of his knack, and therefore some of the choices he might have had in life. But in losing those, he gained so much more freedom, so much more power, that he was clear winner in the bargain.
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The thing that's good about Hip Hop is that it has experimented with a lot of different sounds and music.
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I think that's what's so great about 'Jessica James' is you get to sit back and take a moment and realize that this person is black. And some days, this character wakes up and feels black, and some days, she doesn't. That is, for me, a fully black experience.
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We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
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I always make the point that teachers are people too, and that they don't just want to be in front of kids all day and have children be their only feedback loop.
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I think love and obsession are almost one and the same thing at some times. Because the person you end up falling in love with, there is an element of obsession in the early days - it's all you can think about.
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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.
