Aaron Gwin Quotes

If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

Aaron Gwin

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• In 2007, there weren't any other accelerators, at least that I was aware of. We were almost the prototypical Y Combinator founders: We were highly technical but had never done a startup before. We also didn't know anyone in the Valley - investors, other entrepreneurs, potential hires. YC seemed like a great way to bootstrap that network.

  

  Patrick Collison
  • Great
  • Done
  • Know

• We have flown Matt over purely as a precaution at this stage. With a bit of treatment tonight George should be fine and right to take his place in the starting line-up.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Up
  • Place
  • Stage

• I don't remember anything anybody said in any Jack Ford picture. Nothing happens except action.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Remember
  • Action
  • Picture

• It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

  

  William of Occam
  • Done
  • Peace
  • Simple

• There's a reason why the Foo Fighters don't blast out Nirvana songs every night: because we have a lot of respect for them. You know, that's hallowed ground. We have to be careful. We have to tread lightly. We have talked about it before, but the opportunity hasn't really come up, or it just hasn't felt right.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Opportunity
  • Respect
  • Careful

• The most perceptive character in a play is the fool, because the man who wishes to seem simple cannot possibly be a simpleton.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Character
  • Play
  • Simple

• There is a hidden blessing in the most traumatic things we go through in our lives. My brain always goes to, 'Where is the hidden blessing? What is my gift?'

  

  Sara Blakely
  • Brain
  • Motivational
  • Blessing

• Good writing is writing and rewriting and rewriting and rewriting. Sometimes, it happens to work right away, and that's amazing. But most of the time, it happens to work, and then you rewrite and rewrite and rewrite, and maybe it even comes back to the thing it was in the first place, but then you know for sure that it is good, and it's what you wanted to do.

  

  Kate Beaton
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Happens

• When I belonged to Jobbik, I didn't wear a kippa and I didn't light Hannukah candles.

  

  Csanad Szegedi
  • Belonged
  • Candles
  • Jobbik

• We're only truly secure when we can look out our kitchen window and see our food growing and our friends working nearby.

  

  Bill Mollison
  • Friends
  • Kitchen
  • Secure

• There are many, many different worlds to live in. And sometimes there is no connection from one to another.

  

  Nora Raleigh Baskin
  • Connection
  • Worlds
  • Live In

• TV has eaten up everything else, and Warhol films are all that are left, which is fabulous. Pork could become the next I Love Lucy, the great American domestic comedy. It's about how people really live, not like Lucy, who never touched dishwater. It's about people living and hustling to survive.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Hustle
  • Fabulous

• Numbers constitute the only universal language.

  

  Nathanael West
  • Language
  • Numbers
  • Universal

• I’ve learned to live with rage. In some ways, it’s my rage that keeps me going. Without it, I would have been whipped long ago. With it, I got a lot more songs to sing.

  

  Etta James
  • Songs
  • Learned
  • Rage

• You were born at a pretty crappy time in history. And it looks like things are only gonna get worse from here on out.

  

  Ernest Cline
  • Time
  • History
  • Born

• Thirty spokes meet in the hub, but the empty space between them is the essence of the wheel. Pots are formed from clay, but the empty space within it is the essence of the pot. Walls with windows and doors form the house, but the empty space within it is the essence of the home.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • House
  • Space
  • Wheel

• I haven't been walking around for years with some burning desire to do a solo record. If I had, maybe I'd have made a record that was experimental. Usually, the idea of a solo record is to get some weird stuff out of your system, but I don't think like that. I wasn't interested in making something that was a hard listen - maybe I'll get around to that some other time. I wanted it to sound effortless, not like I was trying to reinvent the wheel.

  

  Johnny Marr Pretenders
  • Desire
  • Records
  • Interested

• When you've been at it for as long as we have, you go through fallow periods and blooming ones, and you know when you're on a roll and you learn how to keep it rolling for as long as you can.

  

  Bent Sæther
  • Learn
  • Rolling
  • Blooming

• I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Fun
  • Stuff
  • I Love

• Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • People
  • Music
  • Possession

• If you're rolling over rocks and stuff and you have a bigger wheel, it's going to stay out of the holes - rough sections become smoother.

  

  Aaron Gwin
  • Wheel
  • Rolling