Top 100 Quotes About Altitude
#1. Attitude determines your altitude, if you have a bad attitude, even if you are way up there, you will come crashing down, and if you are still trying to take off, a bad attitude, will keep you on the ground, revving your engines but going nowhere.
Strive Masiyiwa
#2. I can still love feeling so close to the sun and peaks of mountains, still love life at this altitude - it makes me feel like every breath counts.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
#3. You must not judge people by their country. In South America, it is always wise to judge people by their altitude.
Paul Theroux
#4. As a sea level adapted human, I am more fearful about the radiation levels on top of high altitude mountains, mile high modern cities and inside jet aircraft than from nuclear reactors and bombs, as that is where I get the most radiation exposures in the modern world.
Steven Magee
#5. Today's students can put dope in their veins or hope in their brains. If they can conceive it and believe it, they can achieve it. They must know it is not their aptitude but their attitude that will determine their altitude.
Jesse Jackson
#6. In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.
Jorge Bucay
#7. The quality of food is in inverse proportion to a dining room's altitude, especially atop bank and hotel buildings (airplanes are an extreme example).
Bryan Q. Miller
#8. The summit of Mauna Kea should never have been developed as it is not safe for humans up there. I am now locked into an endless loop of doctors visits for what appears to be classic very high altitude heart, lung & brain damage because I was unfortunate enough to have worked there.
Steven Magee
#9. Very few people realize that the ionizing radiation levels on a commercial jet airplane at cruising altitude are approximately 28 times higher than ground level.
Steven Magee
#10. Your attitude of gratitude will bring you altitude in business and multitude in blessings.
Farshad Asl
#11. A noble soul is not the one that can manage the highest flights but the one that rises very little and falls very little but always dwells in a free, resplendent atmosphere and altitude.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#12. Bad luck is actually a chance for us to make up some time. We're like runners who train on hills, or at an altitude so they can beat the runners who expected the course would be flat.
Ryan Holiday
#13. Your attitude determines your altitude and your altitude your accolades, access and success.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#14. And surely, he that hath taken the true Altitude of Things, and rightly calculated the degenerate state of this Age, is not like to envy those that shall live in the next, much less three or four hundred Years hence, when no Man can comfortably imagine what Face this World will carry.
Thomas Browne
#15. Your attitude towards failure determines your altitude after failure.
John C. Maxwell
#16. I'm not a big fan of the high-altitude approach of mega TV ads.
Foster Friess
#19. The Attitude of Gratitude can raise your Altitude. Being Thankful is a magical way to reach the Top. - RVM.
R.v.m.
#21. We launch when we're kind of in the same orbit that they are in terms of being matched up in inclination in space, and we're just in a little different altitude.
Linda M. Godwin
#22. how very small London was once you reached a certain altitude; once you had left behind those who could not easily secure tables at the best restaurants and clubs. 'Couldn't
Robert Galbraith
#23. High on its flanks is a complex of caves where the kings and heroes of the Mountain Kingdoms have been laid to rest, their bodies preserved by the sub-zero temperatures and thin, high-altitude air.
Philip Reeve
#24. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
#26. I'm really high ... I mean the altitude of course.
Eddie Vedder
#27. [Mrs. Clare] is a gaunt, trouser-wearing, woolen-shirted, cowboy-booted, ginger-colored, gingery-tempered woman of unrevealed age ("That's for me to know, and you to guess") but promptly revealed opinions, most of which are announced in a voice of rooster-crow altitude and penetration.
Truman Capote
#28. The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.
Roald Amundsen
#29. A man so far out of his league he suffered from altitude sickness.
Marisha Pessl
#30. I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really.
Haile Gebrselassie
#31. Not that I haven't leaped up into the blinding light of competence now and then. It's sustaining the altitude that defeats me.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#32. When I went to Everest, I underestimated things. I just didn't know what altitude could do. Or the cold - I especially didn't appreciate the cold. It can be just debilitating, and things can happen so quickly.
Jon Krakauer
#33. An infinite number of things in the universe are held back from you only by your altitude and attitude.
David Allen
#34. Is getting filthy rich still your goal above all goals, your be-all and end-all, the mist-shrouded high-altitude spawning pond to your inner salmon?
Mohsin Hamid
#35. A skyscraper is the incarnate rebellion against the supposedly unattainable; against the mystery of altitude, against the otherworldliness of the cerulean.
Joseph Roth
#36. My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude.
Emeril Lagasse
#37. While flying with several other USAF pilots over Germany in 1957, we sighted numerous radiant flying discs above us. We couldn't tell how high they were. We couldn't get anywhere near their altitude.
Gordon Cooper
#38. When you live life at altitude and then trip and fall - which we all do every day - you have a long way to fall and you may kill yourself. But if you're standing on the ground, you can fall again and again and simply get up, dust yourself off, and take the next step.
Tami Simon
#39. The wars of the future will be fought by computer technicians and by lawyers and high-altitude specialists, and that may mean war will be increasingly abstract, hard to think about and hard to control.
Michael Ignatieff
#40. Our bird of hope was being denied the altitude it sought, just free enough to fly dangerously close to the reality of the treetops.
Dan Groat
#41. The union of altitude and solitude fills me with an arrogant sense of ownership.
Philippe Petit
#42. As the eastbound flight reached cruising altitude, Cindy opened the latest issue of the Economist - she saved her smarter reading for public situations - when
J. Ryan Stradal
#43. Every optimistic path will take you farther, faster, and to greater altitude than any road of pessimism.
Wes Fesler
#44. Life is brought down to the basics: if you are warm, regular, healthy, not thirsty or hungry, then you are not on a mountain ... Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
Chris Darwin
#45. Gratitude is an excellent attitude which can lift you to a greater altitude if you put it on as a vesture.
S. E. Entsua-Mensah
#46. Djuna concerned only with the longitude, and latitude and altitude of human beings in relation to each other.
Anais Nin
#47. Love is the measure of our faith, the inspiration for our obedience, and the true altitude of our discipleship.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#48. Personal inspection at zero altitude. The stories come from my life - if not my own experiences, then about topics and subjects that interest me.
Gary Paulsen
#49. At the altitude of about 23,000 miles the satellite takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to orbit Earth. Earth takes 23 hours and 56 minutes to rotate.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#50. Gratitude is the attitude that sets the altitude for living!
James MacDonald
#51. I've been through the entire list of Polar problems. I knew it would be hard, but it's harder than I ever thought it would be. I've suffered from blisters, a high-altitude cough, frost nip, and I even managed to break a ski they told me was unbreakable.
Lewis Clarke
#52. Honestly, I do not experience fear in the mountains. On the contraryI feel my shoulders straightening, squaring, like the birds as they straighten their wings. I enjoy the freedom and the altitude. It is only when I return to life below that I feel the world's weight on my shoulders.
Anatoli Boukreev
#53. I never knew there were this many stars."
"I can't see them," he told me. "I just see you."
"That's one of your cheesier lines," I told him.
"It's the altitude," he told me. "I don't have enough oxygen in my brain."
"I see.
Ally Carter
#54. the euphoria of bee handling, like an altitude high or the rapture of the deep. It
Margaret Atwood
#55. And now it is boring; here in Tanzania, she is bored. She will die of a crushing monotony before she even has a chance at a high-altitude cerebral edema. -
Dave Eggers
#56. Your attitude, not your aptitude, will determine your altitude.
Zig Ziglar
#57. Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.
Zig Ziglar
#58. I stopped snowboarding as I started to recognize symptoms that corresponded with radiation sickness when at high altitude ski resorts.
Steven Magee
#59. Everything seems so small, so trivial, when you're on the right altitude.
Joyce Rachelle
#60. To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.
James Dickey
#61. The altimeter had been damaged along the way, but the few bottles that we brought along to wash down the ordinary expedition rations were fine. True, a bottle gives only a vague indication of altitude, but can you drink an altimeter?
Erhard Loretan
#63. A review of summit day photographs will show that I was clothed in the latest, highest quality, high altitude gear, comparable, if not better, than that worn by the other members of our expedition.
Anatoli Boukreev
#64. It's your ATTITUDE not your APTITUDE that ultimately determines your ALTITUDE!
Zig Ziglar
#65. Difficult times never last.
Patient to preserve is a peaceful altitude for surviving the stormy waters.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#66. Your attitude will ultimately determine and define your altitude of life
Debasish Mridha
#67. Because of the high altitude, you get drunk really fast. So everyone's drunk all the time.
Clea Duvall
#68. We have reached a little altitude where we may look down upon the Indian Thugs with a complacent shudder; and we may even hope for a day, many centuries hence, when our posterity will look down upon us in the same way.
Mark Twain
#69. Be aware that the difference between heaven and earth is not so much altitude but attitude.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#70. What determines your altitude in life is your attitude.
Tavis Smiley
#71. It is not your aptitude but your ATTITUDE that decides your altitude in life.
Zig Ziglar
#72. I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.
Robert Littell
#73. I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.
Steven Magee
#74. Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away ... and forgiveness descends.
Julian Barnes
#75. Vast objects of remote altitude must be looked at a long while before they are ascertained. Ages are the telescope tubes that must be lengthened out for Shakespeare; and generations of men serve but a single witness to his claims.
Walter Savage Landor
#76. On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl Marx
#77. Attitude with gratitude supported by fortitude will take you to the next altitude!
Bayode Ojo
#79. On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.
Michael Stipe
#80. Your gratitude attitude determines your life altitude.
Zig Ziglar
#81. Maybe I'll go where I can see stars, he said to himself as the car gained velocity and altitude; it headed away from San Francisco, toward the uninhabited desolation to the north. To the place where no living thing would go. Not unless it felt that the end had come.
Philip K. Dick
#82. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.
David Breashears
#83. Don't be a pigeon if you were born to be an eagle. Experience God's altitude for your life.
Myles Munroe
#84. Mountains inspire awe in any human person who has a soul. They remind us of our frailty, our unimportance, of the briefness of our span on this earth. They touch the heavens, and sail serenely at an altitude beyond even the imaginings of a mere mortal.
Elizabeth Aston
#85. Hey, Eriele?" he said. "You know what's funny?... You're so busy yelling at Ian," Dan said, "you didn't notice our altitude. Time to change the gas mixture.
C. Alexander London
#86. Very high altitude observatories are a known worker health hazard.
Steven Magee
#87. The more one learns of this intricate interplay of soil, altitude, weather, and the living tissues of plant and insect (an intricacy that has its astonishing moments, as when sundew and butterwort eat the insects), the more the mystery deepens. Knowledge does not dispel mystery.
Nan Shepherd
#88. From that altitude, the world looked calm and vivid and possible. But by the time we landed at Prestwick the clouds were down like the black cap on a hanging judge.
Al Alvarez
#89. Even at this altitude, the substitute pilot's bathed in sweat, sweat running down his chin and neck. Fear must be the fountain of youth, because the substitute pilot now looks younger than any of us, doughy and flushed with horror.
Karen Russell
#90. Soaring at this altitude, I saw Elsace as something so much cleaner. Lakes turned to puddles, cities into toys. The squalor of the slums went invisible and everything smelled fresh like rain. It was one of the reasons I loved the Wastrel. I felt so far away from all that misery down below.
Meg Merriet
#91. We came back right over the World Trade Center and could see, even from that altitude, the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.
Hugh Shelton
#92. I had my house converted to the Colorado altitude, so I am always above sea level,
Gilbert Arenas
#93. You got no fuckin idea how bad it gets. I'm not you. I can't make it on a couple a high-altitude fucks once or twice a year. You're too much for me, Ennis, you son of a whoreson bitch. I wish I knew how to quit you.
Annie Proulx
#94. Perhaps it was the altitude or maybe the lowness of the clouds that somehow made
K Shor Thomas
#97. For a very long time, Viviane and Jack lived in that world people inhabit before love. Some people called that place friendship; others called it confusing. Viviane found it a pleasant place with an altitude that only occasionally made her nauseous.
Leslye Walton
#98. The lasting physical and mental health effects of long term very high altitude exposure appear to be remarkably similar to daily heavy smoking.
Steven Magee
#99. Your attitude towards life will define your altitude of success.
Debasish Mridha
#100. After decades of hauling telescopes around in the back of vans and going up to high altitude locations and so forth, I did finally build an observatory, here on Sonoma mountain.
Timothy Ferriss
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