"The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die."

-- Royal Robbins

#Self Quotes #Skills Quotes #Errors Quotes

“Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.”
“The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the studentâ€™s inward teacher is ignoredâ€¦ we can speak to the teacher within our students only when we are on speaking terms with the teacher within ourselves.”
“You can't miss what you never had.”
“Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously.”
“When there is good news, and it is news , we do report it, but usually news is a record of human failure. Those wanting to celebrate human accomplishment are, as someone said, advised to go to the sports section.”

Source : Linda Ellerbee (1987). “"And so it goes": adventures in television”, Berkley Pub Group
“You are the one, I think I'm in love... life has begun.”
“We use the Air Force analogy: there were expensive things they had to do to get a cockpit suitable for a lot of pilots, like wraparound windshields, but their initial solutions, when they realized average didn't work, were adjustable seats. How in the world did they not already have adjustable seats in their planes? We're looking for adjustable seats for education, for basic things that we can do.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“Well, I believe you created those experiences over and over because they mirrored something you believed about yourself. It doesn't really matter how long we have had a problem, or how big it is, or how life-threatening it is. The Point of Power Is Always in the Present Moment.”

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