Climbing Skill

Famous quotes containing the words climbing and/or skill:

    One who pressed forward incessantly and never rested from his labors, who grew fast and made infinite demands on life, would always find himself in a new country or wilderness, and surrounded by the raw material of life. He would be climbing over the prostrate stems of primitive forest-trees.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Better to master a small skill than to accumulate a big fortune.
    Chinese proverb.