Quotes About Climbing

You read in every textbook that cliché: Power corrupts. In my opinion, I've learned that power does not always corrupt. Power can cleanse. When you're climbing to get power, you have to use whatever methods are necessary, and you have to conceal your aims. Because if people knew your aims, it might make them not want to give you power.

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A ogni movimento devo avere tre punti d'appoggio, come dice la vecchia regola dell'alpinismo, o due mani e un piede, o due piedi e una mano, mentre l'altro, piede o mano, cerca il nuovo appiglio.

Tahn crept up the stone wall like a reptile silent after its prey.

There is no difference between religion and politics. Both involve lies and fanatical beliefs that generaly defy logic... Just like rock climbing.

The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.

If you focus on the process of climbing, you'll end up on the summit.

Time passed slowly, like an old man climbing a hill.

Skyscraper Skyscraper, skyscraper, Scrape me some sky: Tickle the sun While the stars go by. Tickle the stars While the sun's climbing high, Then skyscraper, skyscraper Scrape me some sky.

growth comes only when you consciously push yourself onto foreign and uncomfortable-feeling sections of wall.

And I knew it was true, that my words were made of stones, that they would last and I would climb them.

Botanists who study "twining handedness" have discovered that hops are unusual in their proclivity to twine in a clockwise direction; 90 percent of all climbing plants prefer to go counterclockwise.)

Every December I take two or three weeks off. After an entire season of training and climbing, my body needs the break.

I could have saved my marriage if I had chosen to. But when I was forced to take a new look, I realized, 'Hey, it's not what I really want - it's a weird thing, but climbing is still at the center.'

I do this weird thing in studios where I climb stuff when I get nervous.

Climbs like the Dawn Wall don't come around every day.

Arsenal was in a decline. We had to stop this and begin climbing.

I also know for a fact of at least two other ascents of the Delicate Arch. But when 'Outside' did their research, the other two climbers wouldn't admit to it, and I admit to it because I don't see anything wrong with a man climbing a rock.

Climbing for me is about being free. It's just to move and be uninhibited and feel and tap into the connection with nature.

My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted.

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

But although the cliche says that power always corrupts, what is seldom said ... is that power always reveals. When a man is climbing, trying to persuade others to give him power, concealment is necessary. ... But as a man obtains more power, camouflage becomes less necessary.

Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb, with great labor, and incessant anxiety, but never reach the top.

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of your own nature should determine the speed. If you become restless, speed up. If you become winded, slow down. You climb the mountain in an equilibrium between restlessness and exhaustion. Then, when you're no longer thinking ahead, each footstep isn't just a means to an end but a unique event in itself.