Ascent Quote by Royal Robbins Download Open image “A first ascent is a creation in the same sense as is a painting or a song” — Royal Robbins ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascent Creation Firsts Painting Song
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In a sense everything that is exists to climb. All evolution is a climbing towards a higher form. Climbing for life as it reaches… — Rob Parker Copy Share Image
The ascent is the aim of your life and to perfect it is your job. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Beginning is not only a kind of action. It is also a frame of mind, a kind of work, an attitude, a consciousness. — Edward Said Copy Share Image
Climbing is a heroic liberating act; and height spontaneously symbolizes things of high value, be it in the value of worldly power or of… — Rudolf Arnheim Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
In climbing, being first-rate is part of the whole enterprise. The important climbers want to be the first man up the mountain, the one… — James Salter Copy Share Image
'Rise' has a lot of different meanings. It's a call to action to rise from the dead and actually live. — Trip Lee Copy Share Image
Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the… — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
“Creation is not simply past; it is not just associated with "the beginning.” — Terence E. Fretheim Copy Share Image
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… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Before the deed comes the thought. Before the achievement comes the dream. Every mountain we climb, we first climb in our mind. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
The rock is a field of battle between our weakness and our strength. We wouldn't touch rock if we were perfectly self-controlled. And he… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
With the best equipment in the world the man with poor judgment is in mortal danger. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Our ascent, of course, does not end the possibility for new accomplishments on El Capitan. The day will probably come when this climb will… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Instead of the god of security, we bow to the greater god of freedom, the freedom to take risks and master danger in order… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
I had the unique experience the next day: placing sixteen bolts in a row. It was just blank and there was no way around.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
I failed on a climbing problem eight times before realizing I was climbing as high as I knew I could and then letting go.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
A simple equation exists between freedom and numbers: the more people, the less freedom. — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
Climbing is a great game-great not in spite of the demands it makes, but because of them. Great because it will not let us… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet.… — Royal Robbins Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
