"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 Quotes #Climbing Quotes #Weather Quotes

“What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid?.”
“Writing is a combination of intangible creative fantasy and appallingly hard work.”
“Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.”
“No self is of itself alone. It has a long chain of intellectual ancestors. The 'I' is chained to ancestry by many factors... This is not mere allegory, but an eternal memory.”

Source : "A Life of Erwin Schrödinger". Book by Walter Moore, 1994.
“When I sat there in 1971 and watched my grandfather open Walt Disney World, I was a little 11-year-old girl who worshiped the ground he walked on. You probably couldn't have found much daylight between the NRA and the Disney company.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“I'm not in a situation where you get a thousand scripts. You want to make a living, you want to put your kids through school. I'd rather do three bad films that pay well than do one good film every three years that doesn't pay well. ... To me, if you can get a steady check in this business, you're doing okay.”
“My philosophy is familiarity breeds contempt.”
“Listen my love, illumination is eternal. Now is always evolving. As there are billions of stars, there are billions of steps. As there are billions of souls, there are billions of ways to grow.”

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