Quotes About Rodney Mullen

#1. Laws exist in every state that make animal cruelty a crime. Horse slaughter is simply another form of animal abuse.

Bo Derek

#2. Any eyes on me - a late-night street sweeper, some dude texting in his parked car, the homeless guy talking to himself - make me feel uncomfortable when I skate. Everyone expects me to do certain things.

Rodney Mullen

#3. There's an intrinsic value in creating something for the sake of creating it.

Rodney Mullen

#4. Do what you love and try not to look at what other people occupy themselves with. Most people seem restless and bounce around too much to focus or even pay attention enough to themselves to figure out exactly what they really do love, as opposed to what the people that surround them are doing.

Rodney Mullen

#5. The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#6. Who are you? What is your distinct contribution? That is so valuable whether it gets you anything or not. Trophies? Doesn't matter. If you know you did it, that's what keeps you going, you know? Success is illusive.

Rodney Mullen

#7. Well, if one's going to daydream, one might as well make it a good one, don't you suppose?

Danielle Paige

#8. The degree to which we connect to a community is in proportion to our individuality.

Rodney Mullen

#9. It puts a ceiling on your progress. You're blocked by your pride. To get good, you have to throw your board around and fall.

Rodney Mullen

#10. Those who have tried meekness know the importance of being important.

George Ade

#11. Leave to Heaven the measure and the choice.

Samuel Johnson

#12. It's me,' said Damen. 'It's me, here with you. Say my name.' 'Damianos.' He

C.S. Pacat

#13. A shy man no doubt dreads the notice of strangers, but can hardly be said to be afraid of them. He may be as bold as a hero in battle, and yet have no self-confidence about trifles in the presence of strangers.
Charles Darwin

Susan Cain

#14. It wasn't until '79 I won my first amateur championship, and then, by '81, I was 14, and I won my first world championship, which was amazing to me, and in a very real sense, that was the first real victory I had.

Rodney Mullen

#15. Skateboarding is as much, or more, an art of mode of expression than it is a sport. What skateboarding has given me is precisely that: a form of expression that drew me to it, and, in so doing, I was able to express and be who I wanted to be through it, in a sense.

Rodney Mullen

#16. I'm not going to say I told you so" is pretty much the same thing as saying "I told you so." Except worse because you're saying "I told you so" and congratulating yourself for your restraint in not saying what you totally just said.

Jenny Lawson

#17. You buy a house and you get it checked out and you feel like you've kind of made your mark here in some way. And then an act of God just comes up the coast and has the potential to just completely wipe it clean. Weather like that is certainly humbling.

James Van Der Beek

#18. I can say I'm not doing 'X-Men.' I love the franchise, and I love the people who make them on and off screen.

Taron Egerton

#19. I had an idea for a technologically advanced luxury watch. I got involved in digital art and neon painting and put on shows of my work.

Giorgio Moroder

#20. I've been all around the world, and there will be a thousand kids crying out your name, and it's such a weird, visceral experience. It's like, it's disorienting.

Rodney Mullen

#21. You realize who you're in love with is fading fast. You don't know what to do, but in that period time moves so slowly.

Taylor Swift

#22. That's the problem with arguing with Sig. We start at point A and then go straight to step thirteen and wind up in phase orange and then, you know, we're in the linen aisle looking for windshield wipers. I

Elliott James

#23. Vert skating was the kind of skating that was done in pools, where you could get airborne and be weightless. The other style, which is what I did, was called free style, which was tricks you could do on flat ground.

Rodney Mullen

#24. The biggest obstacle to creativity is breaking through the barrier of disbelief.

Rodney Mullen

#25. Let your tongue speak what your heart thinks.

Davy Crockett

#26. Don't let anything poison your individuality. Break away & look in, not outward.

Rodney Mullen

#27. I like to study a lot of math, physics, and the Bible, too. For me, they all show that there's a lot more to things than we see.

Rodney Mullen

#28. You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

Rodney Mullen

#29. I can't wait to wake up and try something new. I can't sleep at night because I want to try something new.

Rodney Mullen