Doug Scott famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At its finest moments climbing allows me to step out of ordinary existence into something extraordinary, stripping me of my sense of self-importance.
-- Doug Scott

#Climbing #Self #Steps
If you want to climb it badly enough, you will. So... why bother ?
-- Doug Scott

#Climbing #Want #Enough
Climbing is about pioneering new routes, exploring new ground, facing the unknown. Those hooked on climbing the normal routes on the eight-thousanders will miss all theat. They are wasting the best years of their climbing lives.
-- Doug Scott

#Eight #Climbing #Years
Pucky lads, a wee bit over their heads.
-- Doug Scott

#Climbing #Lad
Nothing substitutes a large apprenticeship, a heap of experiences which converts into the base of intuition.
-- Doug Scott

#Climbing #Intuition #Apprenticeship
Like it or not taking risks, by a total commitment to the mountain and the vagaries of the weather, is essential for the greater satisfaction to be derived from mountaineering.
-- Doug Scott

#Commitment #Climbing #Weather
In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.
-- Doug Scott

#Writing #Mean #Climbing
Milton, when he went blind, declared that he could now begin the real work of his life. Similarly, with the merciless passage of time reducing my phisical strengh, I find myself less able to explore the outer world, but better prepared to explore the inner.
-- Doug Scott

#Real #Climbing #World
History may be accurate. But archaeology is precise.
-- Doug Scott

#May #Archaeology #Accurate

To put yourself into a situation where a mistake cannot necessarily be recouped, where the life you lose may be your own, clears the head wonderfully. It puts domestic problems back into proportion and adds an element of seriousness to your drab, routine life. Perhaps this is one reason why climbing has become increasingly hard as society has become increasingly, disproportionately, coddling.
If you've climbed the first 140 meters it doesn't mean that you've succeeded; you are going to succeed by climbing the last 10 meters.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, â€œThat guy is kinda delusional.â€
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.
Life is so full of miseries, minor and major; they press so close upon us at every step of the way, that it is hardly worthwhile to call one another's attention to their presence.
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again.

Doug Scott famous quotes

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