Stacy Peralta famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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

#Want #About Success
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

#Thinking #Intuition #Important
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

#Real #Men #Firsts
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

#Lonely #Crazy #Voice
Watching young Afghan skaters in the film 'Skateistan' made me realize why I've spent my entire life as a skateboarder.
-- Stacy Peralta

#Realizing #Film #Made
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

#Running #Writing #Athlete

We like to see death as an unfair conspiracy, and what we want is a magic practitioner, a combination of Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes.
God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.
Its all gone pretty fast. I dont want to move on, but I know I have to.
OK, the rule is, you can [make love to] an elephant if you want to, but if you do you can't cover the circus.
The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
One can't have it both ways and both ways is the only way I want it.
I want to go beyond the restrictions of language, religion and caste, and music is the only thing that allows me to do that.
You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

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