“For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, Seem here no painful inch to gain, Far back, through creeks and inlets making, Comes silent, flooding in, the main. And not by eastern windows only, When daylight comes, comes in the light; In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly! But westward, look, the land is bright!” LooksLightSeemsSunLandFrontsGainsWindowTiredSilentWavePainfulClimbsInchesEasternDaylightFloodingCreeks Author:Arthur Hugh Clough
“Do nothing in haste; look well to each step; and from the beginning think what may be the end.” ThinkingWellsLooksMayEndsStepsMountainClimbsClimbingHikingHasteMountaineeringMountain ClimbingClimbing MountainRock ClimbingNegligenceInspirational Mountain ClimbingHiking In The MountainsClimbing Mountains Inspirational Author:Edward Whymper
“Go ahead, climb up onto the velvet top of the highest stakes table. Place yourself as the bet. Look God in the eyes and finally, for once in your life, lose.” LooksEyeWinningLosesHighestTablesClimbsStakesVelvet Author:Adyashanti
“There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below a certain level or standard of living, and certainly we don't quarrel with this. But look more closely and you may find that all too often these well-meaning people are building a ceiling above which no one shall be permitted to climb and between the two are pressing us all into conformity, into a mold of standardized mediocrity.” PeopleWellsLooksMayTwoTodayCertainLevelsEconomicBuildingStandardsEconomicsOppressionClimbsConformityMediocrityQuarrelsMoldCeilingsStandards Of Living Author:Ronald Reagan
“When you first sit down to write the first song, until you've maybe got three or four under your belt, it's always, to me, like a mountain to climb. You look at that one blank piece of paper and you think, `God, how many songs do I have to write here?' It always feels like pressure.” ThinkingFeelsWritingFirstsLooksSongThreePiecesFourMountainPaperPressureClimbsBlankBelts Author:Martin Gore