Jimmy Chin famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Moving #Moving Forward
Creativity needs to extend beyond the lens. Find creative ways to showcase your work and get it seen. Straight up tenacity, hard work and determination will always be part of the equation, so get to it.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Photography #Determination #Hard Work
"I've always been a proponent of "if you're going to do something, do it right." I applied that across all aspects of my shooting - planning, setting up shoots, getting up early, working with athletes and models, working with clients etc. Just being a pro about it."
-- Jimmy Chin

#Photography #Athlete #Etc
There's existential fears I have - losing passion and creativity and just kind of floating through life. When I feel a little lost - pulled away by the noise of what you're supposed to be doing and what your social following is - I go back to the things that inspire me.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Passion #Creativity #Inspire
There are parallels between filmmaking and climbing mountains just in terms of the commitment it requires, absolute devotion, and the belief that you are going to make a film and that the film is going to be OK, as well as the risks you have to take. You are never going to climb anything great if you don't take risks.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Commitment #Climbing #Risk
Mathematicians have a certain type of mind, and climbers have a certain type of mind, because climbing poses these incredibly interesting problems for them.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Climbing #Interesting #Mind
I think drug addicts have brains wired like adventurers and they didn't get the opportunity to find it. You know, the people I get to work with - not all of them are well-adjusted. Some of them are driven by heavy demons.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Opportunity #Thinking #People
Right on through today, my lungs and stamina are my engine. I'm not nearly the strongest guy or the most flexible, but I can definitely sustain pace on the mountain.
-- Jimmy Chin

#Guy #Mountain #Today

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
It was always part of the plan to move into acting.
Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

Jimmy Chin famous quotes

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