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 was very disruptive. I was horrible. I didn't learn like all the other kids. I had to sometimes take my tests out in the hallways because I couldn't focus. But, my teachers would come see me in the plays and were like 'I don't understand how you can focus and be in the moment in a play and you go into math class and you can't focus.'

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Kids
  • Focus
  • Math

• 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

• Bill O'Reilly is like a comfortable pair of shimmeringly angry slippers, but you know every night what you're going to get.

  

  Piers Morgan
  • Night
  • Angry

• 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

• There's simply anger over the accountability that Yelp brings and also this feeling of powerlessness because so much power is now being put in the hands of the consumer. But the important thing that gets lost with some of these business owners who are very upset with us is it's the whole picture that counts.

  

  Jeremy Stoppelman
  • Important
  • Business
  • Power

• I love snowboarding. It's probably my favorite sport. I love sitting on top of the mountain and the snow falling and that silence, that snow silence. That's, like, a very peaceful, happy place for me.

  

  Philippe Cousteau, Jr.
  • Happy
  • Silence
  • Mountain

• The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Real

• I cannot compare and contrast Tinder and Bumble directly, but I will say that we have a very impressive, forward-thinking user base.

  

  Whitney Wolfe Herd
  • Thinking
  • Say
  • Cannot

• I think a trillion dollars of student loans and a massive skills gap are precisely what happens to a society that actively promotes one form of education as the best course for the most people. I think the stigmas and stereotypes that keep so many people from pursuing a truly useful skill, begin with the mistaken belief that a four-year degree is somehow superior to all other forms of learning.

  

  Mike Rowe
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Students

• 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