Getting down is mandatory.” ― Ed Viesturs, No Shortcuts to the Top: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Peaks. Refresh and try again.

I get real irritated. What’s more, I’ve always felt that the greater the challenge, the greater the reward.”, “No matter what the future holds in store, I can say now—out loud, without hesitation—something that, sadly, all too few men and women can ever say: I have lived my dream.”, “What drives my life is not the desire to get along with other people or make friends so much as a moral obligation to give back as much as—no, more than—I take. You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what … I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

There are no shortcuts in the quest for perfection. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive. 96 likes. The race is quicker when we're stricter. Criminals interest me, because they're driven by the same desires as we are, but they take these disastrous shortcuts and end up in a real mess. Scouting and player development is the key to year-in and year-out success, not the occasional lucky hit. For K2, which has the reputation of being the hardest and most dangerous of the high peaks, the ratio is a little over three to one. To win, you have to swim upstream early on - and that requires hard work and long hours. There's a process to everything. During my engineering days, I learnt to value diversity, not to take shortcuts in life. If you’re taking shortcuts, you can’t be free. Keep your eyes on today, and declare what you may.”, “Luna had told us not to drop the rose, not to leave the path. People are prone to taking mental shortcuts. Females have a better palate.

For”, “The famous last line of Herzog’s book is “There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”, “a simple but stark criterion: the number of climbers who successfully reach the summit compared to the number who die on the mountain. In the beginning, you have nothing except for your own talents and resources.

tags: climbing, hiking, mountaineering, safety. “I'm lazy! Relationships are built over time. They may know that they shouldn't give out certain information, but the fear of not being nice, the fear of appearing ignorant, the fear of a perceived authority figure - all these are triggers, which can be used by a social engineer to convince a person to override established security procedures. Hate hard work in all its forms!

I don't read thrillers, romance or mystery, and I don't read self-help books because I don't believe in shortcuts and loopholes.

No shortcuts--simply loving the slow process of planting. So they take a bloody shortcut.”, “Success is built over-time not over-night”, “My novels are set in a global space and pace. “Whether you're beginning with the foundation or you're finishing off the second story...the purposeful way you continue to lay the bricks matters. If you take shortcuts, you get cut short. You can't predict it. Error rating book. You can't write an algorithm for it. Loving an achievement that grew slowly and bloomed for only three weeks each year.”, “Straight answers were beyond the powers of Rashid Khalifa, who would never take a short cut if there was a longer, twistier road available.”, “The problem with making an extrinsic reward the only destination that matters is that some people will choose the quickest route there, even if it means taking the low road. It’s really not so far from the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Some”, “Although I remain uncertain about God or any particular religion, I believe in karma. There really is no shortcut just because you have a name, or you have some kind of access or some way you can solve all the problems. “Whatever challenge you have before you can be accomplished in the same fashion—whether it takes a week, two months, or a year.

Loving the work as it unfolded. I hate work! Play your best tennis, give your heart out, and anything can happen.

That’s karma. Clever shortcuts, that's all I'm about!” ― … But we never dropped the rose - it was on me the whole time - and we didn't leave the path, not really. There was no other way to do it.