The process of achievement comes through repeated failures and the constant struggle to climb to a higher level.
Sometimes the Nonman would climb upon some wild pulpit, the mossed remains of a fallen tree, the humped back of a boulder, and paint wonders with his dark voice. Wonders and horrors both.
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.
A very odd thing happened to my career when I got The Wire. My career was pretty much a steady climb; I didn't really flatline much. When I did The Wire, that's when I thought all the doors would open, but that's when things flatlined. I had a really hard time just getting seen for film, which was the next step.
I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.
Every time I reach a new peak, I see a new one I want to climb.
I believe in a wall between church and state so high that no one can climb over it.
Illegibility of this world. All things twice over. The strong clocks justify the splitting hour, hoarsely. You , clamped into your deepest part, climb out of yourself for ever.
In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain.
I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
Everything that has happened to me in a good way, I never thought in a million years those things would happen. Now that I have achieved those things, there's kind of always another mountain to climb.
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
Some day I'm going to climb Everest.
After the climb, you should feel no trace of tiredness; on the contrary, it is then that you should be really fresh. Then you will have found the correct measure of your abilities.
Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?
Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.
Climb up the ladder! Climb up the ladder! Are you stupid?!
The real, in all this efforts, is that we climb just for climbing.
Whenever I climb I have to also entertain.
To have courage, one must first be afraid. The deeper the fear, the more difficult the climb toward courage.