When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.
Interpretation
Focus on small, manageable steps to achieve your goals.
This quote by Royal Robbins emphasizes the importance of breaking down challenges into smaller, achievable tasks. When faced with overwhelming obstacles, concentrating on incremental progress rather than the entire journey can facilitate eventual success and lead one to their ultimate destination.
In practice
During a motivational speech about overcoming challenges.
My ambition was to become the best climber and I never did. I think that goal was a wrong goal. A better one is to put more emphasis on enjoyment and on getting a rounded experience and on things like friendship, rather than on sheer achievement.
The terrible thing about free soloing difficult routes that are within one's capacity, is the chance that faced with ultimate danger and need for ultimate self-control, one's nerve might fail and cause an error. That's irony of it - that fear could short-circiut skill, that one would die as a direcy result of being afraid to die.
By losing your goal, You have lost your way.
Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.
Work is an antidote for anxiety, and ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility. Whatever our circumstances in life, my dear brethren, let us do the best we can and cultivate a reputation for excellence in all that we do. Let us set our minds and bodies to the glorious opportunity for work that each new day presents.
In football, the worst things are excuses. Excuses mean you cannot grow or move forward.
I had learned, from years of experience with men, that when a man really desires a thing so deeply that he is willing to stake his entire future on a single turn of the wheel in order to get it, he is sure to win.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.
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