Mark Twight Quotes

#1. Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

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#2. The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

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#3. The months of being disingenuously friendly and the resulting self-hatred taught me that self-confidence cannot be based on the approval of others.

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#4. Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers ...

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#5. You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

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#6. Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

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#7. I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

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#8. So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

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#9. Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

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#10. Punish the body to perfect the soul.

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#11. It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

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#12. I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

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#13. Everything costs something everyone pays

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#14. And while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

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#15. Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

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#16. Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

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#17. We surround ourselves with people like ourselves. You become what you hang around.

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#18. We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

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#19. If you can not grasp the consciousness-altering experience that real mastery of these disciplines proposes, of what value is your participation?

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#20. Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

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#21. Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

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#22. Memories and hope are not so different; one is "having done" the other is "to do." Neither constitutes action. You are what you do; thus, if you do nothing, you are nobody. If you once did great things, you think you are great. You coast along on dead, preserved laurels, lifeless and wasting away.

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#23. Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men ... learn to suffer.

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#24. One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

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#25. Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

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