Yvon Chouinard Quotes

A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Art is too serious to be taken seriously.

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Art
  • Taken
  • Serious

• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • People
  • Shame
  • Come And Go

• Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Great
  • Art
  • Steal

• I feel very, very, very intent on only releasing things that I believe are fully worthy.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Believe
  • Feel
  • I Believe

• A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Good
  • Man
  • Woman

• I remember my very first audition for a film. I was in Seattle. They were taping the session, and I just went crazy. The director finally said, 'Zoe, what are you doing? The camera's right here. Just talk to me.' And it took that director saying that to me to change everything.

  

  Zoe McLellan
  • Remember
  • Change
  • Me

• Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • You
  • Beauty
  • Comedians

• In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Time
  • Poverty
  • Injustice

• The data strongly suggest that very good years in the U.S. stock market are followed by more good years.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Stock
  • Data

• You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Police

• More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Me
  • Wish
  • Manager

• I view my pitching on how confident I was out there, period. And if I lose that confidence, I can become a prisoner of my own mind.

  

  Barry Zito
  • Mind
  • Confidence
  • Period

• Pain is the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind. Then I get rid of the thoughts, and I get in my witness, which is down in my spiritual heart. The witness that witnesses being. Then those particular thoughts that are painful - love them. I love them to death!

  

  Ram Dass
  • Mind
  • Death
  • Pain

• I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Body

• I actually study boxing - my dad was a Golden Gloves champion so I learned how to fight at a very young age. Growing up in Brooklyn you always had to watch your back, so I pretty much learned to protect myself.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Up
  • Age
  • Pretty

• In the past, kids didn't tell their parents they were gay, so there were never the bust-ups. Some parents react so strongly to the news that their children are gay that the reaction is, 'Get out of our house.' There's a residue of old prejudices that are going to die hard.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Children
  • Kids
  • House

• I think there is a strong sentiment that there needs to be change in the district. There are some who believe that is tied to seeking a different superintendent. Our association is not seeking that.

  

  Alan Young
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Strong

• The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Future
  • Today

• I think the most rewarding part of the job, and I think most coaches would say it, is practice. If you have it, a very good practice in which you have 12 guys participate, and they can really get something out of it, lose themselves in practice.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Practice

• The chance of winning a Super Bowl in a city like New York, there's nothing like it. Once you win one, you get that bug to win another one, that edge.

  

  Mark Sanchez
  • City
  • Winning

• I wanted to say to Elvis Presley and the country that this is a real decent, fine boy, and wherever you go, Elvis, we want to say we've never had a pleasanter experience on our show with a big name than we've had with you.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Country
  • Real
  • Experience

• A real capitalist knows that $10 given today does a lot more good than $100 given 10 years from now.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Good
  • Real
  • Today