Climbing Quotes
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Of course, if you think of a European or American household in the '50s, so what were the things that when people started climbing up the ladder, what did they buy? A fridge, a TV, I think piano was the number three item in say '53 or '54.
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Enslavement to your own weakness - be it an addiction to alcohol, or to a woman or to fame - it's degrading, and it means losing your dignity and your freedom.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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It's incredibly easy to get caught up in an activity trap, in the busy-ness of life, to work harder and harder at climbing the ladder of success only to discover it's leaning against the wrong wall. It is possible to be busy - very busy - without being very effective.
Stephen Covey
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New frameworks are like climbing a mountain - the larger view encompasses rather than rejects the more restricted view.
Albert Einstein
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If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
Chris Bonington
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I've always been incapable of accepting fate, and I've always refused to die, and that has helped me to survive.
Walter Bonatti
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That first peak is the best place to pause and look back, to see if you took the easiest route, to learn the lessons from the first climb. And it is the best place to examine the terrain ahead, to change your plans and goals, to take a deep breath and begin climbing again.
Michael Johnson
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The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
Jules Michelet
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About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared.
Deke Slayton
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Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across them in a person, I get this sense of a firm foundation and of a direct access to truth.
Wojciech Kurtyka
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I think I shall try to take up climbing professionally. It’s something I love, and I think I am good at, even if it does not lead very far.
Chris Bonington
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Climbing is not a battle with the elements, nor against the law of gravity. It's a battle against oneself.
Walter Bonatti
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What is the end of Fame? 'tis but to fill A certain portion of uncertain paper: Some liken it to climbing up a hill, Whose summit, like all hills, is lost in vapour: For this men write, speak, preach, and heroes kill, And bards burn what they call their "midnight taper," To have, when the original is dust, A name, a wretched picture, and worse bust.
Lord Byron
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As I hammered in the last bolt and staggered over the rim, it was not at all clear to me who was the conqueror and who was the conquered. I do recall that El Cap seemed to be in much better condition than I was.
Warren Harding
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We have been disappointing on our travels, so we need to give our supporters something to shout about. You just need to put two or three results together and you could be climbing the table.
Alex McLeish
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I wouldn't last 30 minutes climbing solo.
Bradford Washburn