Mark Twight Quotes

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  • Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.

  • Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  • Sometimes you must sacrifice yourself on the altar of effort to be reminded of what and who you could become if you applied yourself.

  • Punish the body to perfect the soul.

  • Relish the challenge of overcoming difficulties that would crush ordinary men...learn to suffer.

  • Inconsistency, incompetence, and lies are all cut short by the ground. It will stop you if you can't stop yourself.

    Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”
  • One hour three times per week in the gym is no counterbalance to all of the other behavior in those other 165 hours

  • Everything costs something everyone pays

  • Modern man is conditioned to expect instant gratification, but any success or triumph realized quickly, with only marginal effort, is necessarily shallow. Meaningful achievement takes time, hard work, persistence, patience, proper intent and self-awareness. The path to success is punctuated by failure, consolidation, and renewed effort.

  • Some of us wake up. Others roll over.

  • I scavenged for sensation, sought myself in the rewards of being out there, across the Border.

  • Frostbite? I consider that a failure.

  • We may train ourselves to be adaptable as possible, to respond appropriately in each situation, but the ideal of controlling the outcome or steering events as they occur must be relinquished. Chaos rules it all.

    Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.47, The Mountaineers Books
  • Crested Butte is for spectators; Chamonix is for participants.

    Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.157, The Mountaineers Books
  • Apperance is a Consequence of Fitness.

  • It doesn't have to be fun to be fun.

    Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.9, The Mountaineers Books
  • ...and while ambition sleeps inside of me I content myself with memories of glitter and despair.

    Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.26, The Mountaineers Books
  • You become what you do. How and what you become depends on environmental influence so you become who you hang around. Raise the standard your peers must meet and you'll raise your expectations of yourself. If your environment is not making you better, change it.

  • Success can breed contempt, and a casual attitude toward danger.

    Mark Twight (2002). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”, p.171, The Mountaineers Books
  • I don't actually care what I climb, only how it affects me. Which means the summit doesn't matter as much as the emotional process.

  • So go ahead, break stuff. Break yourself on the once-hard edges of yourself. And recycle the debris into the foundation of your future.

  • The simple fact is this: when you goto Alaska, you get your ass kicked.

    Mark Twight (2001). “Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber”
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