The way I dig in to push myself through mountain climbs is totally psychological. I'm not designed to do that stuff. It's mind over matter.
As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge.
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.
Twentieth pupil of the centuries knows its stuff and bird-changed this century like Jesus climbs the sky.
People have so many preconceptions about me. I always knew it was going to be an uphill battle.
I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.
It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
And the day climbs down from its blue loft-bed on a slanting ladder of sunbeams, pauses a moment between the trees, airy-light, young.
I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over.
When a father climbs a dangerous mountain and dies, we mourn. When a mother does, we question her judgment. How could she?
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.
But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old.
Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill.
A gripper of a read . . . Silence revives the cliff’s-edge drama of those Jazz age climbs and drives home the tragedy of Mallory’s death.
The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.
Keep your sense of humor. As General Joe Stillwell said, 'The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of his behind'.
'Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned.
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature.
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb.
Nothing in my life has really ever been easy. I've always been someone who did it uphill.
The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill.
I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.
I try to be as fit as possible, so I do a lot of exercise every day. Cardio, weights, uphill walking.
It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having.
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.
A politician who climbs high over the bodies of the slain is described as vile or great according to the degree of his success.
He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
There is nothing wrong with fighting, but when you're fighting an uphill battle on an uneven playing field, that's what I don't like.
I joined 'Meru' midstream after my co-director Jimmy Chin had already filmed the 2008 and 2011 climbs.
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies.
The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill.
But I love bowling in India, the grounds are quite flat whereas in South Africa you feel you are running uphill.
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be.
When I'm 70 or 80, I'm still going to be doing good climbs. It's going to be fun to the bitter end.
It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense
We don't ever want to be in a position that we're fighting uphill. We don't want to looking up at China.
Oh love, rose made wet by mermaids and foams, fire that dances and climbs up the invisible stairs and awakens the blood in the tunnel of sleeplessness.
Dream barriers look very high until someone climbs them. They are not barriers anymore.
God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher.
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
It's the journey toward doing these harder climbs that really gives value to the whole activity of climbing.
I've walked away from more climbs than I can count, just because I sensed that things were not quite right.
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
A man climbs a mountain because it is there. An artist makes a work of art because it is not there.
I grow tomatoes, spinach and melons, a pepper vine climbs my coconut tree. I have a home and kitchen of my own.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking.
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
Taking mass transit is an uphill battle and one wrong move can put you on the latest Worldstarhiphop fight compilation.
... War is for everyone, for children too.
I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't.
The best way is to come uphill with me
And have our fire and laugh and be afraid.
the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.
When you're young and you're striving, it's all uphill, and it's easier to climb. Then, when you get and look around, you sort of say, 'Wow, the altitude's kinda thin up here!'
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something.
The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness.
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