Quotes About Stacy Peralta

#1. Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.

Stacy Peralta

#2. Certainly you don't want to make something that nobody sees. It's not really about success, it's about sharing something.

Stacy Peralta

#3. Coercion from outside, strong temperamental inclinations and passions within ourselves, do nothing to effect the essence of our freedom. They simply define its action by imposing certain limits on it.

Thomas Merton

#4. I've been a professional athlete, I've directed films, I've run a company with 150 employees, and nothing compares to writing a screenplay. Just the second I think I know what I'm doing, the rug gets pulled out and I have no idea what I'm doing. Because there are so many problems to solve.

Stacy Peralta

#5. Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct, everyone would see it's about profit, jobs and competitive advantage.

Amory Lovins

#6. I can't accept overnight what I've always denied.

Truman Capote

#7. What I lack in technique, I think I make up more for in intuition. I think intuition is underrated and so important in the work that one does in one's life.

Stacy Peralta

#8. Going with intuition a lot of times is very lonely. You're going on hunches - a little voice in here says, "Go this way." And your mind is saying, "You're crazy."

Stacy Peralta

#9. Much more is accomplished by a single word of the Our Father said, now and then, from our heart, than by the whole prayer repeated many times in haste and without attention.

Teresa Of Avila

#10. With the amount of sugar I'm doing, she's lucky I can remember the colour of my eyes without a mirror.

Lauren Beukes

#11. Whoever is content with the world, and who profits from its lack of justice, does not want to change it.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

#12. My 'pieces' all fit and they are not missing. I'm not a puzzle to be solved. I'm not a mystery. I'm a WHOLE human.

Tina J. Richardson

#13. Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Stacy Peralta

#14. If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

#15. As major orchestras around the world are gripped in various kinds of crises and upheaval, we need to be sure that we are bringing up this new generation.

James Levine