Quotes About Achievement

I don't really like talking too much about myself, but I have this feeling that it's all clicking for me. It's all coming together.

I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.

I am now bowling 135 clicks at times, and yeah, it's good.

I measured my success by how many clients I had and how many billable hours I had.

It takes a lot of resources to climb Everest, and a lot of other people. But you should go do it.

I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.

It's like a living process. You start out, and you see the Eiger north face, and you think, 'That's impossible.' Then you start to dream. Then you climb the Eiger north face. Then maybe you go to the Himalaya.

To me, it's just not that important whether someone climbs the Eigerwand in ten hours or in three.

Many of my hardest climbs were done with one or both feet barefoot.

The Nose is a beautiful route. The best thing is that, in one day, you get to climb so much. You climb and climb and climb the whole day.

The only reason I want to climb up the rankings - beating the champion and beating guys in the top five - those are the guys that get the endorsements and get the most money and get paid the most. That's the only reason why.

Albert Frederick Mummery and Chris Bonington are the British climbers I most admire.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

The top climbers in the world had attempted this climb and couldn't do it. That history is what makes Meru special.

I think part of my business problems stemmed from a feeling that I had to be more than a good climber, that I had to do something more 'meaningful.' And that may come from my father.

I know I'm not a cutting-edge free climber. Free soloing, I'm comfortable to 5.10-plus or 5.11a. But if I was a grade higher I could do some amazing things.

Climbing is what I do.

I feel like I'm climbing as well, if not better, than ever.

Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.

I'm always climbing.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

If I'm just trying to get to different levels... and it takes levels to get to levels, and I just have to do what I have to do to keep on climbing the charts and getting where I need to be.

Climbing is not a competition, and you cannot talk in terms of 'greatest,' it means nothing.

I've never tried to be the leader. All I focus on is climbing.