Yvon Chouinard Quotes
I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.Yvon Chouinard
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
Humanity will live as long as there are humans.
Vasily Grossman -
The most important of all rights is the right to life, and I cannot foresee a day when domesticated animals will be granted that right in law.
J. M. Coetzee -
For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
If you're trying to understand why it is that certain things happen in Sacramento and certain things don't, at the end of the day, it comes down to the issue of incentives: We do what we're incentivized to do.
Gavin Newsom -
I'm a really heavy sleeper. When I wake up I'm a terrible morning person.
Flume
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He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.
Carles Puigdemont -
I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Laura Fraser -
You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
Wayne Rooney -
I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
Laura Dekker -
The secret to longevity, as I see it, has less to do with diet, or even exercise, and more to do with the environment in which a person lives: social and physical. What do I mean by this? They live rewardingly inconvenient lives.
Dan Buettner -
Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
A. C. Benson
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We live in a free world, so everyone can say whatever.
Pastor Maldonado -
We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.
Natalie Dormer -
Remember that failure is an event, not a person.
Zig Ziglar -
There was such a relationship between the buffalo and the American Indian - the Indians would eat them, live inside their pelts, use every part of the body. There was almost no separation between the people and the animals.
Val Kilmer -
When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.
Natasha Trethewey -
I've realized how important it is to have women in your life. You get to a certain age where you're like, 'I need women around.'
Laura Prepon
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Do not live in the future, only the present is real
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.
John Caudwell -
I really wish people - maybe it's naive - wish people had priorities and were willing to be artistic patrons.
Harold Prince -
I don't start my show at 200%. I like to go in slow, warm up the crowd, and bring them along with me. To hear everyone singing along is so great.
Nicholas James Murphy -
Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it frustrated me to see students and parents who viewed faith and science as enemies.
John Clayton -
I live for the moment. I'm basically a Buddhist-type person. I'm just here right now, and I don't think about what's going to happen a hundred years from now. I try to concentrate on what's going on right now. But I'm really trying to run this company like it is going to be here a hundred years from now. That's what's important.
Yvon Chouinard