Best Mark Twight Quotes

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

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

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#3. One thing I always tell people. If you want to be gold medalist, you partner one.

Howard Bach

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

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#5. Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

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

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#7. 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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#8. 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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#9. I never liked photography. Not for the sake of photography. I like the object. I like the photographs when you hold them in your hand.

Robert Mapplethorpe

#10. Everything costs something everyone pays

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#11. Here's something to think about: How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?

Jay Leno

#12. 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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#13. 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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#14. Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men ... learn to suffer.

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#15. My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.

Rihanna

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

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#18. I love the chance to train with someone like Mark Twight.

Lena Headey

#19. Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

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

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#21. 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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#22. 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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#23. 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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#24. 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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#25. I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

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#26. 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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#27. Recollection, I have found, is usually about half invention ...

Wallace Stegner

#28. I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2.

Amber Riley

#29. 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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#30. The words, gestures, and threats of our officers were thrown away upon men who had lost all presence of mind and only longed for absence of body.

Andrew Potter

#31. Punish the body to perfect the soul.

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

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#33. The path of genius is free, and its own

William Hazlitt

#34. 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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