Jimmy Chin Quotes

The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

Jimmy Chin

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• I think I'm always trying to subvert conventions, and sometimes it's more successful than others.

  

  Carla Gugino
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Successful

• With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.

  

  M. C. Gainey
  • Past
  • Doing
  • Lawyers

• In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Art
  • Experience

• It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Mother
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• 'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?

  

  Foster Friess
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Guy

• You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

  

  Ralph Waite
  • Problems
  • Face
  • Mature

• I just can't feel lukewarm about a character. I either despise her, admire her, or don't understand her and want to understand her.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Character
  • Want
  • Understand

• We need a commander in chief that speaks the truth. We will not defeat radical Islamic terrorism so long as we have a president unwilling to utter the words 'radical Islamic terrorism'.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Long
  • Truth
  • Words

• And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Seen

• No matter how much technology changes scouting, no matter how much free agency and big TV contracts change the business of baseball, I hope and pray that the heart of the game will never change.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Heart
  • Business
  • Hope

• I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • You
  • Wear
  • Wearing

• The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Free

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• In many countries in the Middle East - and this is changing in the wake of the Arab Spring - but for a long time, censorship of books and film was a very big deal. There were books you couldn't buy; things with political content would be censored, but there were some genres of books and film that the censors just didn't understand.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Political

• The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Never
  • Type
  • Handsome

• I've never been to a beach party before. We have gravel-pit parties in Alaska.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Party
  • Beach

• We are the most amazing creatures that this world has ever produced, but we seem to also have this herd mentality; we seem to be the most stupid, also.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • World
  • Stupid
  • Mentality

• Equal weights at equal distances are in equilibrium and equal weights at unequal distances are not in equilibrium but incline towards the weight which is at the greater distance.

  

  Archimedes
  • Distance

• There is a reason behind life. There is some connectivity between living beings. Whether you want to call that 'God' or 'The Force' or whatever word you use for it, I do believe in a spiritualized mechanism.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Life
  • God
  • Believe

• The passion you forbade my lips to utter Will not be silenced. You must hear it in The sullen thunders when they roll and mutter: And when the tempest nears, with wail and din, I know your calm forgetfulness is broken, And to your heart you whisper, "He has spoken."

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Heart
  • Passion
  • Broken

• The thing that I've always believed is that you have to follow your passion, and if climbing is your calling in life and your craft, to not do it is a tragedy. I am always going to encourage my children to follow their passions and dreams, whatever they are.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Life
  • Children
  • Passion