Jim Bridwell Quotes

#1. Sound character is our greatest asset because it provides the power with which we may ride the emergencies of life instead of going down under them.

Napoleon Hill

#2. You walked into my life when I was nineteen years old. You were the only man I ever loved - the only man I ever hope to love. You took everything we did together, everything we were to each other, and scorched it to nothing: left it a cloud of ash.

Laura Barnett

#3. Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it.

Confucius

#4. I mean, there are many other directors who are probably both more skilled and excited to adapt novels or work within certain genre conventions. I'd like to do that kind of work someday, but for better or worse I'm too drawn by my own material.

Todd Solondz

#5. Time isn't circular," she said to Dr. Kellet. "It's like a ... palimpsest.

Kate Atkinson

#6. Keep your eyes open and try to catch people in your company doing something right, then praise them for it.

Tom Hopkins

#7. A sense of uncertainty that is potentially fatal is what makes climbing an adventure. Anything less is just working out

Jim Bridwell

#8. Opinion polls are not worth the paper they are written on, in my view, through the conference season. They don't settle down again until November.

Norman Tebbit

#9. Doubt is the enemy of success.

Jim Bridwell

#10. I'm one of those people that think certain things happen at certain times for all the right reasons.

Paul Walker

#11. My best vacation is your worst nightmare.

Jim Bridwell

#12. I think anything that you put your life's energy into becomes part of your identity. It would be difficult for the Rolling Stones to not play rock and roll anymore, because that's their image of themselves. When you've convinced everybody that that's who you are, that's who you are.

Jim Bridwell

#13. I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

Jim Bridwell

#14. No one argues that we should have imposed a dictatorship in Afghanistan having liberated the country. Similarly, we weren't about to impose a dictatorship in Iraq having liberated the country.

Paul Wolfowitz

#15. Sport climbing is a lot like sport f*#king. It's a lot of fun and requires no commitment.

Jim Bridwell