Todd Skinner famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

At its best, climbing becomes a life focus around which everything else must orbit and at its least is an excellent diversion from the real world.
-- Todd Skinner

#Real #Climbing #Focus
You know your life is over when you own a lawnmower.
-- Todd Skinner

#Death #Suicide #Life Is
The climbing and soloing aren't worth dying for, but they are worth risking dying for.
-- Todd Skinner

#Climbing #Dying
We cannot lower the mountain, therefore we must elevate ourselves.
-- Todd Skinner

#Mountain
We'll climb with you and steal your women.
-- Todd Skinner

#Climbing #Stealing #Climbs

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The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track.
Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.
Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.
When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
To plunder, to lie, to show your arse, are three essentials for climbing high.
Before you begin, sit for a moment and take a couple of deep breaths. You want to be calm and prepared to maintain mental focus
Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.
One lesson that every nation can learn from China is to focus more on creating village-level enterprises, quality health services and educational facilities.

Todd Skinner famous quotes

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