A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
I love New York. It just reminds me of so many movies... I look up at buildings, and feel like Godzilla should be climbing up them or something.
No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.
Stop comparing where currently stand to where others are, and start focusing on pushing yourself hard enough to consistently climb to greater heights.
He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.
By my third year of Law and Order, I was climbing the walls. But you don't leave a hit show, especially when you have a five-year contract.
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.
I have lots of other mountains that I would like to climb. I have no dream of Everest, but there are some, like Mount Fuji, I'd like to do.
When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
Percussion is physical, as most instruments are. The body must function well in order to play the instruments well. Last year I climbed Mount Kilimanjaro.
Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.
I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.
Everybody starts at the top, and then has the problem of staying there. Lasting accomplishment, however, is still achieved through a long, slow climb and self-discipline.
I am confirmed in my division of human energies. Ambitious people climb, but faithful people build.
There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.
But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.
Sid: Can I hang out with you? Manfred: Sure. Climb on my back and relax the whole way. Sid: Really? Manfred: No.
Dr. Alan Grant: [while climbing a tree to rescue Tim stuck at the top in a car] I hate trees!
[Ludo and Didymus are fighting, Didymus climbs up Ludo's back] Didymus: All right then! I can conquer this mountain!
