A Quote by Yvon Chouinard

It's not an adventure until something goes wrong.

Yvon Chouinard

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Yvon Chouinard
American - Businessman
Born: 1938

The word adventure has gotten overused. For me, when everything goes wrong - that's when adventure starts

Yvon Chouinard

Having an adventure shows that someone is incompetent, that something has gone wrong. An adventure is interesting enough - in retrospect. Especially to the person who didn't have it.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson

We do not really think, we are barely conscious, until something goes wrong.

Charles Sanders Peirce

True adventure begins when everything goes wrong.

Yvon Chouinard

I think it is unnatural to think that there is such a thing as a blue-sky, white-clouded happy childhood for anybody. Childhood is a very, very tricky business of surviving it. Because if one thing goes wrong or anything goes wrong, and usually something goes wrong, then you are compromised as a human being. You're going to trip over that for a good part of your life.

Maurice Sendak

Give me an adventure. I'm not talking about some massive adventure. Just something that would make getting fired seem small. Something that I might remember when I'm old." "I can't predict the future," I said, "but based on what little I know so far, I'm afraid it has to be a massive adventure or nothing." "Great!" "Probably the kind of adventure that ends in a mass burial.

Neal Stephenson

People don't appreciate their intestines until something goes wrong. But I always hope that people gain a little appreciation for their guts.

Mary Roach

The test of an adventure is that when you're in the middle of it, you say to yourself "Oh now I've got myself into an awful mess; I wish I were sitting quietly at home. And the sign that something's wrong with you is when you sit quietly at home wishing you were out having lots of adventure.

Thornton Wilder

Work wise, as a stunt woman, I enjoy telly - or TV - because - and, as an actor - I kind of enjoy the urgency of it. I enjoy the problem-solving that's happening. Right now, we don't have time to rehearse for hours. And, if something goes wrong, we don't have time to shoot something else for four days until we sort it out.

Zoe Bell

In music, if you hit a wrong note, people forgive you. In magic when something goes wrong, the entire art is destroyed.

Penn Jillette

Right is right and wrong is wrong. And you can't wait until something nasty and horrible happens to then claim it's wrong, while you've catered the support of certain groups for votes or other reasons.

Andy Beshear

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

Tim Cahill

Whenever I finish a book, I go off and have some kind of adventure. Having had an adventure in my writing chair or on my writing sofa, an internal adventure, then I need to balance that off with an external adventure, so I'll go tramping through Africa or whitewater rafting or float to Hawaii in a martini shaker or something.

Tom Robbins

There is something fundamentally wrong about the way we [americans] are moving as a country, when billionaires are able to buy elections as a result of Citizens United. There`s something fundamentally wrong when 99 percent of all new income goes to the top 1 percent.

Bernie Sanders

We're not building a nuclear reactor here. We're not drilling a mile beneath the surface of the ocean with no plan in case something goes wrong. This is making music, this is melodious air and people can hear what goes into it.

Gord Downie

Whatever goes wrong can be used to your advantage, providing it goes wrong enough.

Tom Robbins

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