Otis Chandler quotes

Surfing is an individual expression of one's own worth and one's own ability to participate directly with nature. And what makes it really enjoyable to me is that every wave is different... there's a special, non-repetitive pleasure in it that never gets boring.
-- Otis Chandler

#Expression #Surfing #Special

Once we start worrying too often or too deeply about what certain individuals and what certain groups think about us, then we might start selling our souls for the sake of expediency. I suggest if that day ever comes, then the press has had it.
-- Otis Chandler

#Thinking #Worry #Soul

Los Angelesand all of southern california is destined to become the greatest metropolitan area the world has ever known.
-- Otis Chandler

#California #Southern #World

We're in the media business today. We're in the business of helping authors and publishers market their books to readers. And that's where we make our money. We sell book launch packages to authors and publishers and really help accelerate, build that early buzz that a book needs to succeed when it launches and accelerate that growth through ads on the site.
-- Otis Chandler

#Book #Media #Growth

My way of expression is full of complications and mystery because that's my perception of life.

My mum is an artist and very into creative expression and freedom.

Life is a wave of creative consciousness rippling through space and time that we have the honor of aesthetically surfing.

Surfing is so much work. It's one of those things that I just love, but it's so hard.

One of the special marks of the Holy Ghost in the Apostolic Church was the spirit of boldness.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

I'm not going to hurt her. I know she's special and I tried to stay away, but when I'm with I don't feel so cold and alone.

Whether it's the experiments on 'MythBusters' or my earlier work in special effects for movies, I've regularly had to do things that were never done before, from designing complex motion-control rigs to figuring out how to animate chocolate.

What guides me is to do work that's more avant-garde - things that I think are special. You can easily become a celebrity and get caught up in all that blur. I just want to work and surprise myself.

We [women] are the majority of the population, majority of the electorate, majority of the workforce... and yet we're still doing majority of family unpaid or low paid labor. And we live longer. Our stuff is not "special interest" stuff. Our stuff is the stuff of the future, of the whole.