Yvon Chouinard Quotes

You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

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• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Society
  • Individual
  • Others

• I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Play
  • Learn
  • Singer

• I don't like controversy.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Like
  • Controversy

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.

  

  Gary Carr
  • Life
  • World
  • Great

• It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Energy
  • Win

• We didn't have much money growing up, so we hopped around L.A. a lot in the '70s, '80s and '90s. I'm very familiar with the shifting culture there.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Up
  • Money
  • Culture

• The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Women
  • Slavery
  • Medical

• Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

  

  Tacitus
  • Good
  • Done
  • Friends

• Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Different
  • Song
  • Way

• The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Best
  • Choose
  • Heroes

• I started out doing musicals.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Doing
  • Started
  • Musicals

• I love New York. Love it.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Love
  • New
  • New York

• When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.

  

  R. Lee Ermey
  • People
  • Money
  • War

• You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Children
  • Home
  • Lose

• The best parenting advice I actually got was from Shane McMahon. He was great with me when Brie was pregnant and all that. He said, 'When you have that baby, make sure you take care of Brie first.'

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Great
  • Best
  • Baby

• They thought I was a success as soon as I started paying the bills.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Success
  • Thought
  • Started

• Jesus continues to offer light, joy, and peace to today's generation.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Today
  • Light
  • Peace

• I was 24 years old and stuck in a strange place with two boisterous little boys, and my husband was working offshore on the oil rigs. It was a life for which I wasn't prepared.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Life
  • Husband

• I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Happy
  • Proud

• When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to cry aloud At what has happened. Birds, at least must know It is the change to darkness in the sky. Murmuring something quiet in her breast, One bird begins to close a faded eye; Or overtaken too far from his nest, Hurrying low above the grove, some waif Swoops just in time to his remembered tree. At most he thinks or twitters softly, 'Safe! Now let the night be dark for all of me. Let the night be too dark for me to see Into the future. Let what will be, be.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Time
  • Nature

• You ask me about the past, you ask me about the future, the only way to be happy is to be living right now.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Happy
  • Future
  • Past