Erik Weihenmayer Quotes

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

Erik Weihenmayer

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• The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Love
  • Faith
  • For Her

• It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Good
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • School
  • High
  • Knowledge

• All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Heart
  • Path
  • Same

• When you're young, you're always concerned about how you're being seen and how you're being criticized.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • You
  • Always
  • Young

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

  

  Andrew Whitworth
  • Long
  • Moving

• I've already been married six times in my career as an actress - twice as Becky - so I think a wedding of my own might feel too much like work!

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Work
  • Career
  • Wedding

• Terrorism, as a whole, is - I don't want to say 'taboo,' but it is a very emotional subject.

  

  Bill Goldberg
  • Emotional

• I started out from a pretty modest background, so I always had a pretty good sense of money. I always had to work for my money, save my own money, I always bought my own stuff with my money... trying not to waste money unnecessarily.

  

  Marco Arment
  • Good
  • Work
  • Trying

• As far as I can tell, 1968 is a year about change, about revolution, about violence, about people turning inwards as community breaks down.

  

  Matthew Weiner
  • People
  • Community
  • Violence

• There's a lot of people all over the world that talked about me.

  

  Jake LaMotta
  • People
  • World

• I grew up singing Mexican music, and that's based on indigenous Mexican rhythms. Mexican music also has an overlay of West African music, based on huapango drums, and it's kind of like a 6/8 time signature, but it really is a very syncopated 6/8. And that's how I attack vocals.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• I thought [Johnny Wujek] was really cute. And so, I was super shy about getting naked in front of him. I didn't want to show him my goods...because I thought he might be straight.

  

  Kate Mara
  • Cute
  • Straight
  • Johnny Wujek

• One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Guy
  • Firsts
  • Deals

• When I’m photographing I see life.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Life
  • I See
  • Photographing

• School, I never truly got the knack of. I could never focus on things I didn't want to learn.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • School
  • Focus
  • Knack

• No use to preach to the working-man courtesy & politeness when at the same time the working-man is not given working conditions under which he can stay polite and soft-mannered.

  

  B. Traven
  • Time
  • Men
  • Use

• Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Decision
  • Firsts
  • Safe

• There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

  

  Constance Marie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• We believe it will be hard to accumulate enough reserves to fully insulate the state from a spending reduction.

  

  Brad Williams
  • Believe
  • Reduction
  • Reserves

• The existing U.N. can be found in the writings of early Communist leaders.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Found
  • Early
  • Communist

• Despite not knowing if what he felt from moment to moment would pass or last forever, he entered fully into his shifting states of violent rage, self-pity, longing, heartbreak, cynicism, without losing the ability to think about what was happening to him. That took courage, I thought, living with the suffering in a mindful way, as an artifact of being, neither good nor bad.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Thinking
  • Forever
  • Suffering

• I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Thinking
  • Mountain
  • Figures