Yvon Chouinard Quotes
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.Yvon Chouinard
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
Laura Haddock -
The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
Adam Draper -
Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
Samuel Butler -
The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
Ice T -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
Venus Williams
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
Randy Quaid -
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
Gayle Forman -
One of the recent love stories I enjoyed was Bhaskar's 'Bommarillu.'
Ram Charan -
Part of adulthood is searching for the people who understand you.
Hanya Yanagihara -
We're all interconnected. For example, a simple lack of fresh water can lead to population dislocation, which can lead to political radicalization, which can lead to great pressure on the states that receive refugees because of a migrating population.
Harrison Ford
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Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
Kate Mulgrew -
If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
Orison Swett Marden -
To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
Earl Weaver -
Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
Oliver Goldsmith -
With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
Lana Wachowski -
Our firefighters are our last line of defense, baby.
Jack Scalia
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
Denis Diderot -
Oddly, because she has that confidence, the people around her like her more. She becomes more a part of the Reaper family, and she also is able to get along with people more outside of their circle as well.
Ellen Muth -
Know thou that every fixed star hath its own planets, and every planet its own creatures, whose number no man can compute.
Bahá'u'lláh -
I remember returning to Bangalore after a few months of travel and seeing it as a first-world city, like New York or San Francisco. This may be obvious to some people, but I grew up in Delhi, and I had no experience of how someone from a 'Tier 2' city may view a 'Tier 1' city. You really do emigrate between worlds when you come from those towns.
Karan Mahajan -
I purposely try to hire people who are really self-motivated and good at what they do, and then I just leave them alone.
Yvon Chouinard