Dolores LaChapelle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived - life lived in a blaze of reality.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Sports #Fun #Reality
Joy is the response of a lover receiving what he loves. This is the joy we feel when skiing powderâ€¦ This overflowing gratitude is what produces the absolutely stupid, silly grins that we always flash at one another at the bottom of a powder run. We all agree that we never see these grins anywhere else in life.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Running #Gratitude #Stupid
One can never be bored by powder skiing because it is a special gift of the relationship between earth and sky. It only comes in sufficient amounts in particular places, at certain times on this earth; it lasts only a limited amount of time before sun and wind changes it. People devote their whole lives to it for the pleasure of being so purely played by gravity and snow.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Wind #Sky #People
How could I live without powder?
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Skiing #Powder
The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order. Topocosm means "the world order of a particular place." The topocosm is the entire complex of any given locality conceived as a living organism, not just the human community but the total community - the plants, animals and soils of the place. The topocosm is not only the actual and present living community but also that continuous entity of which the present community is but the current manifestation.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Life #Mean #Animal
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#People #Snow #Effort
Powder snow skiing is not fun. It is life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. What we experience in powder is the original human self, which lies deeply inside each of us, still undamaged in spite of what our present culture tries to do to us. Once experienced, this kind of living is recognized as the only way to live â€” fully aware of the earth and the sky and the gods and you, the mortal, playing among them.
-- Dolores LaChapelle

#Fun #Lying #Reality

Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.
If you trust, you will be disappointed occasionally, but if you mistrust, you will be miserable all the time.
Let me be clear: Any new approach must ensure the integrity of the game. One of my most important responsibilities as commissioner of the NBA is to protect the integrity of professional basketball and preserve public confidence in the league and our sport. I oppose any course of action that would compromise these objectives. But I believe that sports betting should be brought out of the underground and into the sunlight where it can be appropriately monitored and regulated
We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.
I've always envied the kind of coach who could go completely out of his mind and nobody would know the difference.
Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
It's never really fun to have to cry in a scene or anything like that.
We are apt to say that a foreign policy is successful only when the country, or at any rate the governing class, is united behind it. In reality, every line of policy is repudiated by a section, often by an influential section, of the country concerned. A foreign minister who waited until everyone agreed with him would have no foreign policy at all.
The language itself is what gets me interested in writing. It's weird to me that words exist. Never a dull moment with words. They're a layer between our minds and the physical reality around us, obviously, but the layer seems like it's always in flux, like an asteroid belt, constantly moving.
Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.

Dolores LaChapelle famous quotes

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