Climbing Quote by Wojciech Kurtyka Download Open image “Stupidity is falling pray to your own illusions.” — Wojciech Kurtyka ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climbing Fall Illusion Prayer Praying Stupidity
Those who pray for your downfall are concentrating negative thoughts towards you, without taking cognisance of the slippery ground in which they are standing,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not. — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Stupidity is like bumping into a wall all the time. After a while you get tired of it and try to look the situation… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I see one single suitable role for my life's work: for it to be a gift to others. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Every type of evil we've got in us is the result of that one true illness of the human mind - that is, of… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Every move is a creation, Maintaining the delicate balance is a creation, The line is a creation, Survival is a creation, Freedom is a… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Difficult struggle in mountaineering is our rise above himself, is the voice of freedom. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
I don't like egocentricity, which is something that I have arduously battled in myself my entire life. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
For me, the ascent to the peak of the normal ways that torment and anguish. Inspired by the idea of transition was always something… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
When you are totally defeated you begin again to enjoy the small things around you. Just going to the mountains, not for victory or glory, but to enjoy nature or enjoy fine people. If you always succeed you enjoy the admiration of many people. Being defeated means being limited to the basis existential choices of life. If you can enjoy… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share
Other extremely alluring traits in people are simplicity and naturalness. Simplicity and naturalness are never painfully obvious qualities, and yet which I come across… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Great effort, fear and suffering sweet all the worthless chaff out of us. — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Naturally, the top does not automatically make us better. Like the samurai frequented ordinary cutthroat, so sometimes extreme mountaineer can be self-centered, mythomaniac or… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself"… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him… — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
Classic mountaineering grows out of a traditional romantic imagination. Its heart is the feeling, its path is blood, sweat and tears, and its restriction… — Wojciech Kurtyka Copy Share Image
Splutter, splutter. Yes - we're off - we're rising. But why start off with an engine like that? But it smooths out now, like a long sigh, like a person breathing easily, freely. Like someone singing ecstatically, climbing, soaring - sustained note of power and joy. We turn from the lights of the city; we pivot on a dark wing;… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles, faces and ridges, Is it the name itself which is so tempting, or the picture we have of the mountain itself, or does the appeal come from our feeling of the actual process of climbing? All… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share
Climbing has worked for me in a number of ways on Capitol Hill. I'm much more inclined to look at what people do, as… — Mark Udall Copy Share Image
I love finding something. For me it's not just about the athletic challenge, it's about finding new things. When I'm not doing that in… — Chris Sharma Copy Share Image
The things that inform student culture are created and controlled by the unseen culture, the sociological aspects of our climbing culture, our 'me' generation,… — Gus Van Sant Copy Share Image
