Jimmy Chin Quotes

Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

Jimmy Chin

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• The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.

  

  Ovid
  • May
  • Ability
  • Will

• If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Great
  • Political
  • Ugly

• I always like to sing along to some depressing, angry Morrissey.

  

  Lara Stone
  • Like
  • Always
  • Angry

• I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Computers
  • Cursed

• The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Business
  • Political
  • Drunk

• My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Up
  • Work
  • Job

• My kids are in school and in all these clubs - chess club, fashion club, you name it. When my dad came home from work, it was late, and when he left, it was early in the morning. On my days off, I'm still taking my kids to school and picking them up. I do what I have to do to keep that relationship.

  

  Omar Dorsey
  • Up
  • Work
  • School

• The tensions between authority and the people need to be heard, especially when they are suffering and they can't eat.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • People
  • Suffering
  • Authority

• I see Intershop as a leader in the E-commerce digital economy and believe the company has truly long-term potential.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Leader

• For me, insomnia was something ordinary, and it came and went for ordinary reasons.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Me
  • Reasons
  • Ordinary

• Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • You
  • Alone
  • Rest

• The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Society
  • Value
  • Social

• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Most
  • Failed
  • Some

• And it hurts as a player, that you put a lot of hard work in during the week, and at the end of the week, Sunday, when you get on the field, that's when they acknowledge about the hard work that you put in throughout the week. That's actually a disappointment.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Work
  • Player
  • End

• There are so many projects on my Dream List. I have so many things in the works, just like little ideas or collections of things or things I write or even just a title of something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Dream
  • Like
  • Ideas

• And then a great thing in my life was going to India.

  

  Beatrice Wood
  • Life
  • Great
  • My Life

• When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Good
  • Father
  • Voice

• I'm still Vanessa from the neighborhood. My parents own the shop, and I'm there all the time, that I worked in when I was a teenager. I have a child from my childhood sweetheart.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Childhood

• I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • Human
  • See
  • Look

• John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.

  

  Gaylord Nelson
  • May
  • Political
  • Earth

• If you dunk your head in cold water, you can't stay under for more than five seconds. I mean, that's it.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • You
  • Water
  • Cold

• The fear of mistakes is the fast track to irrelevance.

  

  Joe Gebbia
  • Fear

• Every soldier should learn survival on land, sea, and in the air.

  

  Louis Zamperini
  • Air
  • Sea
  • Survival

• Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.

  

  Jimmy Chin
  • Fear
  • Survival