Kevin Jorgeson Quotes

#1. I'm practical, very data-driven, and process-oriented. If I look at a radar and see a giant green blob coming toward me, I'm thinking it's probably going to snow.

Kevin Jorgeson

#2. I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.

Kevin Jorgeson

#3. I wanted to see how fast you can go before it becomes nonsensical, a mess.

Chris Cunningham

#4. Every athlete at his peak is going to perform with a different mental cocktail. I thrive in the underdog, reserved, it's-not-over-till-it's-over mindset.

Kevin Jorgeson

#5. I kid around a lot, but pranks are not my best strength!

Betty White

#6. It would be really easy to write off the Dawn Wall as impossible. In terms of climbing technique, I'm learning a new language on this granite.

Kevin Jorgeson

#7. I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire,

Kevin Jorgeson

#8. When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.

Kevin Jorgeson

#9. When the decision is up before you-and on my desk I have a motto which says "The buck stops here"-the decision has to be made.

Harry S. Truman

#10. We find and understand the beauty of life through education.

Debasish Mridha

#11. Climbing has a lot of themes that are applicable to people, no matter who you are.

Kevin Jorgeson

#12. I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.

Kevin Jorgeson

#13. When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.

Kevin Jorgeson

#14. There is a common belief that under modern conditions peace cannot be assured except on the basis of an equal balance of armaments ... [but] true and lasting peace among nations cannot consist in the possession of an equal supply of armaments but only in mutual trust.

Pope John XXIII

#15. People listen to the beat first. So if that doesn't draw people in especially with the audience I cater to, they're definitely about that production.

Torae

#16. I climbed brick facades as a kid. You'd kind of stick your fingers in there.

Kevin Jorgeson

#17. I don't want to be guy that almost climbed Dawn Wall.

Kevin Jorgeson

#18. theology is the rare science that finds it necessary to demonstrate the very existence of its subject matter.

Sherwin T. Wine

#19. The emphasis is on the lost, the abandoned, the discarded sinners, God's detritus.

Julian Barnes

#20. I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are move forward.

Oprah Winfrey