Zitat des Tages über Aufstiege / Climbs:
The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
He who climbs a cliff may die on the cliff, so what? Always a risk-taker by nature, now I became one by intent.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
The soul grows by reincarnation in bodies provided by nature, more complex, more powerful, as the soul unfolds greater and greater faculties. And so the soul climbs upward into the light eternal. And there is no fear for any child of man, for inevitably he climbs towards God.
When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poet, like an acrobat, climbs on rhyme to a high wire of his own making.
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Anytime somebody climbs up those steps into the ring, they have a heart.
O sweet, delusive Noon, Which the morning climbs to find, O moment sped too soon, And morning left behind.
He climbs highest who helps another up.
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.
When my main character in 'Heat' climbs the tower, the highest diving platform, hoping to resume competitive diving after an injury, I am there with her, sensing the cold grit under her instep. The details are what matter - they are the experience.
Music can be useful during training to help get you psyched, and I still listen to music on easy climbs or in the gym. But during cutting-edge solos or really hard climbs, I unplug. There shouldn't be a need for extra motivation on big days, be it music or anything else. It should come from within.
Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.
Ambition devours gold and drinks blood and climbs so high by other men's heads, that at the length in the fall, it breaks its own neck; therefore, it is better to live in humble content than in high care and trouble.
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.
I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
