In the West, the art of rock climbing is growing because it has to do with less risk, good muscles. But the people seeking high goals in high places are in Eastern Europe, and they reach their goals because they are willing to suffer more.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the difference in attitudes toward challenges between the West and Eastern Europe, highlighting the willingness to endure hardship for greater achievements.
Reinhold Messner's quote reflects on the contrasting approaches to rock climbing and goal achievement between the West and Eastern Europe. While Western climbers often prioritize safety and physical fitness, those in Eastern Europe demonstrate a remarkable resilience and willingness to endure suffering, thereby reaching higher goals. This speaks to a broader theme of how the pursuit of excellence often requires sacrifice and courage.
In practice
This quote could be used in a motivational speech about the importance of perseverance.
I became famous for the fact that I would break many, many limits. People said, 'He does all these crazy things.' But oddly it was a crazy thing only because scientists and climbers said, 'Everest and the 8,000-meter peaks without oxygen - impossible. Messner is becoming sick in his head.'
A 30-year-old rock climber is an old man. At 40, one is in the middle of his high-altitude power. At 50, a crosser of deserts is at his best age. But at 60, each of us is out of the game.
I think my cultural work is more important than the adventures I did. The adventures are not important for human beings. It's the conquering of the useless.
In mountaineering, there is not only the activity, but the philosophy behind it. Some say a moral, but I am against that because all morality is dangerous.
I was the first man to climb the world's 14 tallest peaks without supplementary oxygen, but I never asked how high I would go, just how I would do it.
In my state of spiritual abstraction, I no longer belong to myself and to my eyesight. I am nothing more than a single narrow gasping lung, floating over the mists and summits.
When good people in any country cease their vigilance and struggle, then evil men prevail.
I have always been that girl in the back who doesn't say anything.
Resistance to oppression is second nature.
After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our families, organizations, and communities, I'd say the one thing we have in common is that we're sick of feeling afraid. we want to dare greatly. We're tired of the national conversation centering on "What should we fear" and "Who should we blame?" We all want to be brave.
Du Bois marked a great stage in the history of Negro struggles when he said that Negroes could no longer accept the subordination which Booker T. Washington had preached.
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