"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."

-- Allen Steck

#Climbing Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Age Quotes

“A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.”
“The wisest is he that knows only that he knows nothing. God only knows. We mortals are only troubled with morbid little ideas, sired by circumstance and damned by folly. The human head can absorb only the flavorings of its surroundings. We assume that our faith political and our creed religious are founded upon our reason, when they are really made for us by social conditions over which we had little control.”
“The idea of exploring character relations and their development over a decade has to be appealing for any actor who cherishes his craft.”
“To speak up and stand by my guns the entire time...To stand by my methodology. That's why I kind of made myself the producer.”
“The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.”

Source : "The Tweaker" by Malcolm Gladwell, www.newyorker.com. November 14, 2011.
“Sometimes I think Ben is right, that the fantasy world is better because reality sucks...but then I look at Nikki and I believe that we can beat the odds.”
“There is nothing that more betrays a base ungenerous spirit than the giving of secret stabs to a man's reputation. Lampoons and satires that are written with wit and spirit are like poisoned darts, which not only inflict a wound, but make it incurable.”
“I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.”

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