Erik Weihenmayer Quotes

What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

Erik Weihenmayer

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• I should be able to look at my accolades and go, "Come on, Paul. That's enough." But there's still this little voice in the back of my brain that goes, "No, no, no. You could do better. This person over here is excelling. Try harder!" It still can be a little bit intimidating.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Trying
  • Brain
  • Enough

• See?" he said, with an unholy amount of glee. "I hardly broke any laws at all. I should drive more often." "No. Trust me, you shouldn't," Eve said. "Think of all the little old people and the children.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • Children
  • Trust

• I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Love
  • Pretty
  • Strong

• The most universally awesome experience that mankind knows is to stand alone on a clear night and look at the stars. It was God who first set the stars in space; He is their Maker and Master . . . such are His power and His majesty.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Experience
  • Power

• I'd like to keep my personal life private. In reality, I know that's not possible. In the present, I'm trying to pretend it's possible.

  

  Lindsey Vonn
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Reality

• Corbyn's words imply a serious lack of moral judgement. Just as all Muslims are not to blame for ISIS, not all Brits are to blame for [Jeremy] Corbyn.

  

  Tzipi Livni
  • Words
  • Serious
  • Moral

• And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Conversation
  • Foolish
  • Criminal

• As a citizen, and as the state's lawyer, I believe in an evolving Constitution. A flexible Constitution leaves room for us to consider not merely how the world once was, but how it ought to be.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • World
  • Believe
  • Lawyer

• I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.

  

  Craig Newmark
  • Company
  • Phone
  • Opposite

• Because the twentieth century was a century of violence, let us make the twenty-first a century of dialogue.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Violence

• The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.

  

  Kerri Strug
  • Work
  • Drive

• According as a man acts and walks in the path of life, so he becomes. He that does good becomes good; he that does evil becomes evil. By pure actions he becomes pure; by evil actions he becomes evil.

  

  Yajnavalkya
  • Life
  • Good
  • Men

• Their preservation depends upon a sentiment. As sentiment never yet annihilated a paying industry, we cannot hope to stay, wholly, the ax and saw of the lumberman. But popular opinion, combined with action, if directed intelligently towards the setting apart of some one section of the noble redwood forests... will, I believe, save for our present delight and for that of the generations who come after us, at least one grand forest of the Sequoia sempervirens such as the world cannot show elsewhere, such as a thousand years cannot reproduce.

  

  Frank Howard Clark
  • Industry
  • Directed
  • Sentiment

• And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Find
  • Glory
  • Immortality

• The patient must combat the disease along with the physician.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Disease
  • Patient
  • Physician

• It is equally a fault to believe all men or to believe none.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Believe
  • Equally

• For scientists, growing cells took so much work that they couldn't get much research done. So the selling of cells was really just for the sake of science, and there weren't a lot of profits.

  

  Rebecca Skloot
  • Growing
  • Research
  • Scientist

• A warm smile is the universal language of kindness."

  

  Ofra Haza
  • Smile
  • Kindness

• To be honest, I am very worried about the possibility of the U.K. leaving the E.U. But of course, like in the case of Catalonia, we have to respect the right to decide of the British people on a relationship that part of the Brits consider is not satisfying enough.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Respect
  • Relationship
  • Leaving

• I personally know Donald Trump, and I know a lot of amazing really kind acts that he's done one-on-one with people. And the candidate that I see is not the person I know.

  

  Mika Brzezinski
  • Kind
  • Trump
  • Persons

• What a thrill to be able to say that you had a contribution in the life of someone - a young person, perhaps, who is trying to take a look at the possibility of their own lives and find out what they are good at and you can help steer their career.

  

  Erik Weihenmayer
  • Persons
  • Careers
  • Possibility