Top 30 Tommy Caldwell Quotes
#1. Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.
Tommy Caldwell
#2. I travel and climb about eight months a year. That's pretty great training in itself. When I am home, I do a lot of bouldering, gym climbing, and specific strength training in a effort to get stronger for climbing.
Tommy Caldwell
#3. If you don't own your grunt work, can you really say you've done the climb?
Tommy Caldwell
#4. The Dawn Wall and the Fitz Traverse were super-satisfying climbs. But I will always be searching for the next thing - the need to accomplish and explore are just woven into the fabric of who I am.
Tommy Caldwell
#5. El Capitan is the most chapping environment in the world: windy, cold, super dry. I wake up twice a night and reapply lotion to my hands. We sand our fingertips to keep them smooth.
Tommy Caldwell
#6. I have a passion for my work, and that sometimes triggers creative conflicts.
Demi Moore
#7. Through climbing, I've learned to find goals and work toward them. That's just the way I love to live.
Tommy Caldwell
#8. For me, I love to dream big, and I love to find ways to be a bit of an explorer. These days, it seems like everything is padded and comes with warning labels.
Tommy Caldwell
#9. In some ways, climbing in the clouds is comforting. You can no longer see how high off the ground you are.
Tommy Caldwell
#10. I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.
Tommy Caldwell
#11. You may have fucked a lot of women, James, but I'm your first lover.
R.K. Lilley
#12. In rock climbing, people get strong enough, and then they pick goals they can do with their strengths at that moment.
Tommy Caldwell
#13. Cross and resurrection are the South and North polls, true gospel polarities, of a single, undivided, salvation world. Remove either Paul and you've got salvation.
Eugene H. Peterson
#14. I have a very distinct goal all the time that I'm working toward, and I love the way it makes me live.
Tommy Caldwell
#15. I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.
Tommy Caldwell
#16. My agent told me they were casting for the voice of Gollum. I hadnt read The Lord of the Rings, but I read the script and realized what an amazing role it was. I developed a voice for the audition tape, then met Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh at the auditions and fell in love with them both.
Andy Serkis
#17. It was obviously a pretty hectic development schedule and we put a huge team on to it but it paid off because we continuously get complemented on the finished product.
Andrew Oliver
#18. She could allow herself to think of Jim, too. To remember the energy and the excitement of life bursting from him, surrounding her, making her laugh and dream and think-- that's what he represented. Not security just hope.
Kate Alcott
#19. I don't like regressing - I move beyond. Life belongs to the future and I believe in creating History rather than visiting and revisiting the past.
Amit Abraham
#20. Words simply mean what people think they mean when they say them.
Mike Brown
#21. But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.
Susan Beth Pfeffer
#22. Many medical students, like most American patients, confuse science and technology. They think that what it means to be a scientific doctor is to bring to bear the maximum amount of technology on any given patient. And this makes them dangerous.
Alice Dreger
#23. Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.
Walter Annenberg
#24. I have always let my motivation guide me, and that has served me well. Climbing has taught me how to thrive and created a life that I feel incredibly lucky to have.
Tommy Caldwell
#25. I grew up a clumsy kid with bad hand-eye coordination. Yet here on El Cap, I felt as though I had stumbled into a world where I thrived. Being up on those steep walls demanded the right amount of climbing skill, pain tolerance, and sheer bull-headedness that came naturally to me.
Tommy Caldwell
#26. To me; reading a book is like watching a movie. Once I start, I can't stop until it's over.
Anonymous
#27. I am at a climbing area called the Wendenstock in Switzerland. This area has some of the best quality multi-pitch climbing I have seen on limestone. There is about a two-hour approach on one of the steepest grass slopes I have ever seen. The setting is amazing.
Tommy Caldwell
#28. I used to hate to go to school, because when it was Friday afternoon and everybody was finished school, I knew I was going to work Saturday and Sunday.
Riccardo Tisci
#29. My wife always says that I function better up on a big wall than I do anywhere else in life.
Tommy Caldwell
#30. When you ask one friend to dine, give him your best wine. When you ask two, the second best will do.
Matthew Pearl
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