Kevin Jorgeson famous quotes

I think everyone has their own secret Dawn Wall to complete one day, and maybe they can put this project in their own context.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Wall #Thinking #Secret

To anyone writing about #dawnwall, this is not an effort to ‘conquer.’ It's about realizing a dream,
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Dream #Writing #Effort

When you would grab that last hole you could literally feel all of the hope, desire and stress drop off of you.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Stress #Desire #Lasts

I'm learning new levels of patience, perseverance and desire,
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Perseverance #Desire #Levels

The common thread in all of my climbing is it was something new, something never done before. That commonality is more important than the discipline.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Discipline #Important #Done

When you're climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Attitude #Helpful

I'm practical, very data-driven and process-oriented. I'm very objective and analytical about everything. Ninety-five percent of situations on the wall are not that dangerous. Most people look at the climb and think, 'that's crazy.' But when you know the intricacies of your gear, the belay situation and the forces involved, it's pretty safe.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Wall #Crazy #Thinking

I like to control the risk I take. And when risk is taken out of my hands, it frustrates me.
-- Kevin Jorgeson

#Taken #Risk

Rule of storytelling: When a character is shoved against a wall, shove them against a wall harder.

Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

The Matrix is top secret. There isn't much that can be said right now.

We need to take information, wherever it is stored, make our copies and share them with the world. We need to take stuff that's out of copyright and add it to the archive. We need to buy secret databases and put them on the Web. We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file sharing networks... With enough of us, around the world, we’ll not just send a strong message opposing the privatization of knowledge — we’ll make it a thing of the past. Will you join us?

I have lived to know that the secret of happiness is never to allow your energies to stagnate.

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May ‘43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in ‘42 - even in my position. This aircraft didn’t have any priority in design or production.