Quotes About Challenge

clearly to be that of human subjectivity, which has nothing with which to challenge the given situation because it is itself a part or a product of the given situation. No new reality can be generated out of the present reality. Even what we call revolutionary is a product of the old world. 1 7

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

Failures lies concealed in every success in every failure.

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form—or a species—will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.

una persona ya inconsciente tiende a volverse más profundamente inconsciente y una persona consciente más intensamente consciente. Usted puede utilizar un reto para despertar, o puede permitir que lo empuje a un sueño aún más profundo. El sueño de la inconsciencia ordinaria se convierte entonces en una pesadilla.

Every challenge that it contains is actually a disguised opportunity for salvation.

Why the hell would anyone ever choose police work as his profession, he wondered.

Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory.

K2 is not some malevolent being, lurking there above the Baltoro, waiting to get us. It's just there. It's indifferent. It's an inanimate mountain made of rock, ice, and snow. The savageness is what we project onto it, as if we blame the peak for our own misadventures on it.

Every person has his or her own Annapurna." I go on to explain that there were many Annapurnas in my life—challenges I wasn't sure I could meet—but that "the real Annapurna was my last one." For each of you out there, your Annapurna might be a tough project at work, a bad illness, or the breakup of a marriage, but the trick is to find a way of converting adversity into something positive, a challenge to look forward to.

there is nothing else in life like getting to the summit. What's more, I've always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward.

Getting to the top is optional, getting back down is mandatory. A lot of people forget about that.

The famous last line of Herzog's book is "There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.

It reminds me of a very wise saying about mountaineering that my wife, Paula, repeats often: "Just when you think you've got it figured out, you don't.

A great climb is a wonderful mixture of difficulty and intimacy.

Mount McKinley

a simple but stark criterion: the number of climbers who successfully reach the summit compared to the number who die on the mountain. For Everest, the ratio turns out to be seven to one. For K2, which has the reputation of being the hardest and most dangerous of the high peaks, the ratio is a little over three to one. But for Annapurna, it's exactly two to one. For every two climbers who get to the top, one climber dies trying.

I realized that belief is a key ingredient in trying to do things that are difficult.

We are between the wild thoat of certainty and the mad zitidar of fact - we can escape neither.

exsistance is not the cure it is the problem

It is strange how new and unexpected conditions bring out unguessed ability to meet them.

The one on whom all responsibility rests is apt to endure the most.

To me there always seems a way to gain the opposite side of an obstacle. If one cannot pass over it, or below it, or around it, why then there is but a single alternative left, and that is to pass through it.

I had had to discard my rifle