Yvon Chouinard Quotes
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.Yvon Chouinard
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
Dan Brown -
We need a wireless mobile device ecosystem that mirrors the PC/Internet ecosystem, one where the consumers' purchase of network capacity is separate from their purchase of the hardware and software they use on that network. It will take government action, or some disruptive technology or business innovation, to get us there.
Walt Mossberg -
Art is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers... What we call art is a game.
Octavio Paz -
I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
Eddie Rickenbacker -
Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
Waylon Jennings -
In our league, it comes right down to the end.
Dan Quinn
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Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes linked inseparably with the best utilization of our efforts.
Ted Engstrom -
I always had dreams as a kid. I definitely sat at home and watched the Oscars every year and got emotional every year at everyone's speeches.
Yvonne Strahovski -
If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
Takeru Kobayashi -
I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Pro-lifers have long been castigated for bringing private values into the public square. But actually it is the pro-abortion position that is based on merely personal views and values.
Nancy Pearcey -
My sole focus is to help bring a World Cup back to the U.S.
Abby Wambach
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
Hanna Rosin -
Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
Cameron Bright -
My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
Jack Whitehall -
I was a freelancer all through my 20s and was very slow to get good at what I did.
Ira Glass -
Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.
Patrick deWitt -
I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
Patricia Clarkson
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Imagine the power of surfacing what's happening in the world through images, and potentially other types of media in the future, to each and every person who holds a mobile phone.
Kevin Systrom -
The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.
Jonathan Swift -
Diamonds are a girls bestfriend.
Marilyn Monroe -
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
Yvon Chouinard