Yvon Chouinard Quotes
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.Yvon Chouinard
Quotes to Explore
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
Harold MacMillan -
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
Manuel Puig -
Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
Wayne Rooney -
Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
S. J. Perelman -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.
Lao Tzu
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I don't want to be the policeman of Lebanon. It's not the business of Israel. Israel was not created to serve as a policeman of the region.
Yitzhak Rabin -
I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
Garth Risk Hallberg -
If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
Halsey -
People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
Katee Sackhoff -
The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
A lot of my writer friends - some of whom are brilliant - work when the Muse calls them, for lack of a better description. You know, days of nothing, then this creative burst where they write for 36 hours straight fueled by caffeine and idealism.
G. Willow Wilson
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I'm engaged to Hollywood. If there's something I find I have to do, I'll do it. Otherwise, I'll just stay home and have a vacation.
Mads Mikkelsen -
You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
Daniel Craig -
Charity plays an important role in upholding the values and advancing the work of the United Nations.
Ban Ki-moon -
A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti
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VisiCalc and WordPerfect were the killer apps of their day, but Google and Facebook make them look small in comparison.
Astro Teller -
I curse in everyday life, but usually when I stub my toe. The topics I'm discussing, it's not necessary to curse. I found [cursing] is a sign that a joke is not finished or well-written.
Jim Gaffigan -
Coaching doesn’t start with X’s and O’s. It starts with believing that players win games and coaches win players.
Bill Courtney -
Something very beautiful happens to people when their world's fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor.
Marianne Williamson -
Sometimes falling in love may look like pure madness to those not experiencing it but that's only because they're not involved. Just because other people don't understand your feelings doesn't mean they're not real or they're not important. You have to trust yourself. Feel what you feel and don't worry about anyone else. Love is about you and your significant other, remember that.
Willa Cather -
We choose to believe that the granite is alive. If life is movement, then rock - with its atoms flying around like stars in cosmos - is alive.
Yvon Chouinard