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| Marvin | Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face. | | |
| Marvin | Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. | | |
| Marvin | If at first you don't succeed, do it like your mother told you. | | |
| Marvin | Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. | | |
| Marvin | And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. | | |
| Socrates | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. | | |
| Socrates | Let him who would move the world first move himself. | | |
| therusty | I'm an under achiever and proud of it - Bart Simpson | | |
| therusty | The only good is knowledge, the only evil ignorance - Fortune Cookie | | |
| therusty | Safety is an attitude of the mind. It is not simply a following of the rules. | | |
| therusty | If you jump out the window at the 42nd floor and you're still doing fine as you pass the 27th floor, that does not mean you don't have a serious problem. - Charles Munger | | |
| therusty | Every time you smile at someone it is an act of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing. - Mother Theresa | | |
| therusty | Snowboarding is natures way of telling you that you should be dead - (an altered quote from Eric Idle originally about golf) | | |
| sickmove | It's the experience that counts, not the preceived happiness- Craig Kelly | | |
| therusty | Confuscious say "Man who fall into upholstery machine get fully recovered" | | |
| surlyone | Skiers are simply people who haven't yet gotten the hang of snowboarding. | | |
| surlyone | Turning is the boring part between jumps. | | |
| surlyone | There are no friends on a powder day. | | |
| therusty | "If you are lucky, it looks pretty in the end [but] the viewers don't see the falls and the endless hours." - Christian Brose (Condi Rice's speechwriter) comparing speechwriting to alpine skiing | | |
| prosnowboarder | If it is a good idea today, it will be a great idea tomorrow! | | |
| prosnowboarder | "Skiing is for little fat kids" - Shawn Farmer | | |
| prosnowboarder | The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over - Hunter S. Thompson | | |
| prosnowboarder | When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro - Hunter S. Thompson | | |
| prosnowboarder | WWFSMD - What would flying spaghetti monster do? | | |
| surlyone | "Just win baby!" - Al Davis | | |
| ScottM | The hardest turn is your first turn. If you stop or stall after each turn, then every turn is your first turn. - Scotty | | |
| therusty | Fear is a four letter word, an F-Word. - Mermer Blakeslee | | |
| therusty | It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. -Rainer Maria Rilke (from Mermer's book) | | |
| therusty | I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Dune | | |
| msheller | believe in yourself and others will too - fortune cookie | | |
| msheller | Courtesy opens many doors - you guessed it, another fortune cookie | | |
| therusty | Humans are primates, after all, and we groom each other through sharing information. - Karen Stephenson | | |
| Tick | It's not "no friends on a powder day", it's just different friends every run. | | |
| therusty | "There are three ways of learning golf: by study, which is the most wearisome; by imitation, which is the most fallacious; and by experience, which is the most bitter." -Robert Browning (the same is true about skiing, eh?) | | |
| therusty | The things you learn after you think you know it all are the most important. - Claude Harmon | | |
| therusty | You don't teach talent, but you can mess up talent if you try to teach it too much. - Butch Harmon | | |
| therusty | The 5 pillars of life: sailing, skiing, sex, the absence of litigation and ice cream. - Phillip Merrill (committed suicide while sailing) | | |
| therusty | As one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. - Henry David Thoreau | | |
| therusty | To the sick, the doctors wisely recommend a change of air and scenery. - Henry David Thoreau | | |
| therusty | Two trails diverged in a wood, and I - I skied the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. - (Apologies to Robert Frost) | | |
| SnoPro | "Progress always involves risk; you can't steal second base and keep your feet on first." | | |
| SnoPro | Man must keep his words soft and tender--because tomorrw he might have to eat them. | | |
| SnoPro | "When the chips are down, the buffalo is empty." | | |
| SnoPro | MY SKILLS ARE LIKE A SOUTHPAW.... NEVER RIGHT. -New Instructor | | |
| therusty | Most of us have never had an experience of true community ... Still, the attempt must be made. - M. Scott Peck | | |
| therusty | A community is inclusive. Groups that exclude anyone for any reason are not true communities. Genuine communities always reach out to extend themselves. Members of a community commit themselves to one another. Decisions that effect the group are arrived at by consensus. - M. Scott Peck | | |
| therusty | A community embraces the real world. It embraces members with many different points of view, who, as they work their challenges through together, come to share and appreciate the many different facets and dimensions of each situation. - M. Scott Peck | | |
| ingrassia | "the pain of discipline is less than the pain of regret." | | |
| jmb | "The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas." – Linus Pauling | | |
| jmb | "It's never too late to be who you might have been." – George Eliot | | |
| Snowfun4you | …And I want to thank you for all the enjoyment you've taken out of it. --Groucho Marx | | |
| ellen | Take the leap. After all, you have nothing to lose but your life, the princess, and the entire kingdom. - instructions from the original Prince of Persia video game | | |
| ellen | Bart: Can I go to the bathroom? Otto: Uh, uh -- say it in snowboard. Bart: Um, I've got to blast a dookie? Otto: Dook on! | | |
| ellen | I know a lot of people who used to ski, but I don't know anyone who used to snowboard. - old K2 ad | | |
| ellen | With snowboarding, all you get is one board, which is shaped like a giant tongue depressor and manufactured by the Institute of Extremely Slippery Things. - Dave Barry | | |
| ellen | Skiers hate snowboarders. It's a generational thing. Skiers are (and here I am generalizing) middle-aged Republicans wearing designer space suits; snowboarders are defiant young rebels wearing deliberately drab clothing that is baggy enough to cover the snowboarder plus a major appliance. - Dave Barry | | |
| ellen | Skiers like to glide down the slopes in a series of graceful arcs; snowboarders like to attack the mountain, slashing, spinning, tumbling, going backward, blasting through snowdrifts, leaping off cliffs, getting their noses pierced in midair, etc. - Dave Barry | | |
| ellen | I'm pretty sure there's more to life than being really really ridiculously good looking. And I plan on finding out just what that is. - Derek Zoolander | | |
| Ok Ok OK and Go | When I Start teaching everything goes downhill. | | |
| ellen | I started snowboarding with some friends in high school, at first it was just on weekends, soon we started ditching to go snowboarding. Narrator: No one started snowboarding to get addicted. (Kid comes back) Now I do it all the time and I can't stop. I guess that's the addiction. - parody of an old anti-smoking commercial | | |
| Snowfun4you | Never confuse motion with action. --Benjamin Franklin | | |
| Billspa | “Don't ride in front of me; I may not follow. Don't ride behind me; I may not lead. Just ride beside me and be my friend.” - Altered Camus | | |
| Ok Ok OK and Go | Hey wow so this is the forum.. So much fun | | |
| therusty | Courage is only the other half of fear. Because I am afraid, I need courage. -Rheinhold Messner | | |
| Moguls | Skiing - Going downhill turning feet and letting gravity do the work | | |
| Skierguy | face it, you're just sliding down the hill with sticks on your feet | | |
| fidel | "Be Not Afraid Of Going Slow, But Of Standing Still" Old Chinesse Proverb | | |
| therusty | There is a difference between fear and stupidity - Rosie's Austrian climbing friend | | |
| therusty | Winter is not a season, it's an occupation - Sinclair Lewis | | |
| therusty | Never take a job where winter winds can blow up your pants - Geraldo Rivera "Consider the source!" - TheRusty | | |
| therusty | People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. - Anton Chekhov | | |
| therusty | In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer. - Albert Camus | | |
| therusty | Children do most of their learning through play - Roger von Oech | | |
| therusty | Critical thinkers don't automatically accept a particular idea, statement, lifestyle or solution; rather, they examine the alternatives, make a conscious choice among them and accept the consequences. The honest critical thinker recognizes there are many paths to follow, not just his own. - Stephen Brookfield | | |
| therusty | Sit vis vobiscum (May the force be with you) | | |
| therusty | It's not what you say, but how you say it that makes you a great teacher or coach. - Bill Strausbaugh Jr | | |
| Big Dawg | Free your heels, and the rest will follow! - Big Dawg | | |
| Big Dawg | Nord Up! - Big Dawg | | |
| Big Dawg | Ski teaching is way too important to be taken seriously - Big Dawg | | |
| Big Dawg | The difference between an ordeal and an adventure is attitude | | |
| Big Dawg | An integral component of the Teaching Model - no whining or complaining - Big Dawg | | |
| Big Dawg | The only three correct answers to your Coach, "yes coach, yes coach, and yes coach" - Big Dawg | | |
| therusty | A good teacher helps a student to help himself - Butch Harmon | | |
| JRSKIPRO | life is what happens when your planning for it! | | |
| therusty | Your mental health will be better if you have lots of fun outside of that office - Dr. William Menninger | | |
| therusty | People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up - Ogden Nash | | |
| therusty | We are all apprentices in a trade where no one ever becomes a master - Ernest Hemingway | | |
| therusty | You're only as good as the people you hire - Ray Kroc | | |
| therusty | Do not let what you cannot do interefere with what you can do - John Wooden (UCLA basketball coach) | | |
| therusty | Go West, young man! - Horace Greeley | | |
| therusty | The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else doing it wrong, without commenting. - T. H. White | | |
| therusty | If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential. | | |
| therusty | [Primum non nocere (above all not knowingly to do harm) - Hippocratic oath] - This is the basic rule of professional ethics. - Peter Drucker | | |
| Big Dawg | Ski teaching is 20% spoken language, and 80% body language. | | |
| MikeyO | This is the earlest I've ever been late | | |
| Goofychick | The number of people watching you try a trick is always inversely proportional to the stupidity of the trick you are trying. | | |
| Goofychick | many people attatch snowboards to their feet; few attatch them to their souls | | |
| Goofychick | This is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. | | |
| MikeyO | I'm as happy as a baby in a topless bar | | |
| therusty | The threat to men of great dignity, privilege and pretense is not from the radicals they revile; it is from accepting their own myth. Exposure to reality remains the nemesis of the great - a little understood thing. - John Kenneth Galbraith speaking of the era that lead to the great depression | | |
| therusty | The cost of the best advice is infinitesimal compared with the amount of money frequently wasted without it. - Dr. Alistair MacKenzie | | |
| therusty | Lessons are not to take the place of practice but to make practice worthwhile. - Harvey Penick | | |
| therusty | I am always ready to learn, but I do not always like to be taught. - Winston Churchill | | |
| therusty | Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away. - George Carlin | | |
| therusty | My favorite animal is the turtle ... For the turtle to move, it has to stick its neck out. - Dr. Ruth Westheimer | | |
| therusty | Education and the warm heart - if you combine these two, then your education, your knowledge, will be constructive. You are then becoming a happy person. - The Dalai Lama | | |
| therusty | Confidence is always overconfidence. - Robert Byrne | | |
| therusty | Brick walls in life are only there to separate those who really want to do something from those who just say they want to. - Randy Pausch | | |
| therusty | I am dying soon and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow and every other day I have left. - Randy Pausch | | |
