"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 Quotes #Self Quotes #Steps Quotes

“Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.”
“Chess is a meritocracy.”
“I've changed a great deal. I used to be vicious to my parents, just because they objected to me going full-time with a group. Now I can see that all they wanted was the best for me. And we get on great.”
“Today it is considered as exaggeration to proclaim constant respect for every form of life as being the serious demand of a rational ethic. But the time is coming when people will be amazed that the human race existed so long before it recognized that thoughtless injury to life is incompatible with real ethics. Ethics is in its unqualified form extended responsibility to everything that has life.”
“You never see a pretty, unattached girl on a racecourse. But you often see positive gangs of rather unpretty ones. They are the owners or the owners' wives and they wear mink in all weathers and far too much make-up. For some odd reason, I can never work out why they always seem to be married to haulage contractors in the North, builders in the South and farmers in the West.”
“It is not much matter which we say, but mind, we must all say the same.”

Source : Attributed, in Walter Bagehot 'The English Constitution' (1867) ch. 1, p. 16 n.
“'Participant' is the incontrovertible new concept given by quantum mechanics. It strikes down the 'observer' of classical theory, the man who stands safely behind the thick glass wall and watches what goes on without taking part. It can't be done, quantum mechanics says it...May the universe in some sense be 'brought into being' by the participation of those who participate?”
“All honor's wounds are self-inflicted.”

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