"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."

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Source : "An Interview with Richard Branson, Jimmy Chin, and Ben Stookesberry". Interview With Paul Solotaroff, www.mensjournal.com.

Jimmy Chin

#Passion Quotes #Creativity Quotes #Inspire Quotes

“Whether a revolution succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.”
“But difficult situations and wrong choices conspire to trap us in hopelessness.”
“Facebook says, 'Privacy is theft,' because they're selling your lack of privacy to the advertisers who might show up one day.”
“A writer starts out, I think, wanting to be a transfiguring agent, and ends up usually just making contact, contact with other human beings. This, unsurprisingly, is not enough.”

Source : Joy Williams (2015). “Ill Nature: Rants and Reflections on Humanity and Other Animals”, p.177, Rowman & Littlefield
“Letâ€™s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily, in the now, in the concrete incarnations of life, and not through purity codes and moral achievement contests, which are seldom achieved anyway.”
“Amazing, really, to think of what a man could achieve with the simple ability to put pen to paper and spin a decent yarn.”
“I do realise that talk of natural kinds dates back to Aristotle, but I'd better not say too much about ancient philosophers lest I be convicted of practicing history of philosophy without a license.”
“In this respect, granting homosexuals the right to marry is like granting plantation owners the right to own slaves.”

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