Climbing at altitude is like hitting your head against a brick wall - it's great when you stop.
Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.
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.
Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.
My practicality consists in this, in the knowledge that if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall - that is my strength, my only strength.
What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you're slamming your head against the wall. So it's nice to make a breakthrough and not kind of lying there with your head bleeding.
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
It's like banging my head against the wall, except if I were actually banging my head on a wall, I'd be able to make myself stop.
Working with the artist elite can be like banging your head against the wall.
I felt when I was hitting guys or going for a takedown at 185, sometimes it was like hitting a wall.
Don't bang your head against the wall about what you can't do.
I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.
You know, the mark of intelligence is realizing when you're making the same mistake over and over and over again, and not hitting your head in the wall five hundred times before you understand that it's not a clever thing to do.
You should be willing to bang your head against a wall until you find the solution.
If you're playing for the Kansas City Royals about all you can do is beat your head against the wall.
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.