Gary Paulsen quote: "In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing."

Years ago, when I was writing westerns, other writers who were friends of mine wanted me to collabor...
GARY PAULSEN

Look at Inuit clothing. Their stuff still works better than Cabela's. I've made my own parka...
GARY PAULSEN

I ran the Iditarod twice. I finished once. I came in 42nd or 43rd place out of 70 plus teams the fir...
GARY PAULSEN

The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, a...
GARY PAULSEN

In our family, we've always been owned by border collies, or dogs of one kind or another, and ha...
GARY PAULSEN

School didn't work for me. I hated it.
GARY PAULSEN

A border collie saved me once when I was pinned under a horse in Colorado. And once when I went thro...
GARY PAULSEN

I think that what computers have done is just disastrous to the language.
GARY PAULSEN

Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In ...
GARY PAULSEN

You're never the same after you run the Iditarod, and I still lust to go out and run with dogs, ...
GARY PAULSEN

Adults are locked into car payments and divorces and work. They haven't got time to think fresh.
GARY PAULSEN

I have a pickup truck. And I prefer to be with dogs or on my sailboat than in a car - actually, more...
GARY PAULSEN

I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, b...
GARY PAULSEN

I owe everything I am and everything I will ever be to books.
GARY PAULSEN

My parents were brutal to each other, so I slept in the basement by an old coal-fired furnace. I bec...
GARY PAULSEN

I'm a teller of stories. I put bloody skins on my back and dance around the fire, and I say what...
GARY PAULSEN

I sail, run dogs, ride horses, play professional poker and tell stories about the stuff I've bee...
GARY PAULSEN

My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought a...
GARY PAULSEN

Patience, he thought. So much of this was patience - waiting, and thinking and doing things right. S...
GARY PAULSEN

Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from...
GARY PAULSEN

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harn...
GARY PAULSEN

Why do I read?
I just can't help myself.
I read to learn and to grow, to laugh
and ...
GARY PAULSEN

Things seemed to go back and forth between reality and imagination--except that it was all reality.
GARY PAULSEN

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN

That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.
GARY PAULSEN

If books could have more, give more, be more, show more, they would still need readers who bring to ...
GARY PAULSEN

I read like a wolf eats.
I read myself to sleep every night.
GARY PAULSEN

And he's never met anyone like Harris, his unruly daredevil of a cousin.
GARY PAULSEN

It was a strange feeling, holding the rifle. It somehow removed him from everything around him. With...
GARY PAULSEN

He had to keep thinking of them because if he forgot them and did not think of them they might forge...
GARY PAULSEN

Well, he’d actually never heard anybody say it. But he felt that it should be true. There
GARY PAULSEN

I'd learned some things. I knew you weren't supposed to hold a good wine at the top - the pa...
PAT PAULSEN

I read an article that said one in five Americans thinks Elvis is alive. I want to find those morons...
PAT PAULSEN

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and th...
PAT PAULSEN

It's tough campaigning, kissing hands and shaking babies.
PAT PAULSEN

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
PAT PAULSEN

Now that my wine has been served in the White House, why not me? Who could talk to farmers better th...
PAT PAULSEN

In America, any boy can grow up to become president. Or, if he never grows up, vice president.
PAT PAULSEN

I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedi...
PAT PAULSEN

Only a cheap politician, greedy for political gain, would try to single out one individual for blame...
PAT PAULSEN

So I got into growing grapes, not realizing that there was a heck of a lot more to it than meets the...
PAT PAULSEN

I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run ...
PAT PAULSEN

Should we continue to spend billions to subsidize foreign military dictatorships, or should we conce...
PAT PAULSEN

Will I obliterate national debt? Sure, why not?
PAT PAULSEN

Having a comic in the White House will assure stability in foreign relations. The world will continu...
PAT PAULSEN

We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting...
PAT PAULSEN

If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
PAT PAULSEN

The No. 1 cause of forest fires is trees.
PAT PAULSEN

The federal government spends millions to run the Postal Service. I could lose your mail for half of...
PAT PAULSEN

Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its ...
PAT PAULSEN

Deep down, I happen to be very shallow.
PAT PAULSEN

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration po...
PAT PAULSEN

We have nothing to fear but fear itself... and, of course, the boogieman.
PAT PAULSEN

A gun is a necessity. Who knows if you're walking down a street and you spot a moose?
PAT PAULSEN

Since I joined Congress, I've been shocked at how many times we were forced to vote on 1,000-plu...
ERIK PAULSEN

You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you can ...
PAT PAULSEN

I want to caucus in Iowa. I'll caucus all over the state. I don't caucus in California. You ...
PAT PAULSEN

College campuses are a focus of prevention efforts for meningococcal disease because of the increase...
ERIK PAULSEN

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly...
PAT PAULSEN

The Clinton Administration has turned out to be a boon. I knew that he would be wonderful, I just kn...
PAT PAULSEN

Just because there are celebrities in a movie, it doesn't mean anything. I don't think The A...
ROB PAULSEN

I've upped my standards. Now, up yours.
PAT PAULSEN

You cannot imagine what it looked like Friday. The water was turned off. The building was filthy. Yo...
PAT PAULSEN

The bottom line is we need a tax code that is more simpler, that is more fairer, that gets rid of th...
ERIK PAULSEN

There is no question we need an energy policy overhaul in America. A key part of that overhaul must ...
ERIK PAULSEN

As Congress debates overhauling the nation's health care system, it should not authorize a refor...
ERIK PAULSEN

I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
PAT PAULSEN

There is no message out there that rates are biting enough to shut anything down.
JAMES PAULSEN

Eventually, we're going to have beds.
PAT PAULSEN

We don't know where they're from. We don't know what the demographics are. We've prepared for everyt...
PAT PAULSEN

All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration po...
PAT PAULSEN

Commodity prices are rising, quite dramatically for copper, tin and steel scrap. That would not happ...
JAMES PAULSEN

Over the years, she's had a lot of hardships. By 2004, she simply wanted to get this off her conscie...
JEFF PAULSEN

I think that (the terror alert rumor) was most of this ... it's already rallying back.
JIM PAULSEN

It's a treat to portray a complex character. Besides... where else could I find a job where emot...
ROB PAULSEN

The medical device tax repeal is the only proposal that had the most bipartisan votes coming out of ...
ERIK PAULSEN

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need rig...
PAT PAULSEN

I've criticized Republicans for their lack of fiscal discipline when they controlled Congress be...
ERIK PAULSEN

We have some active reservoirs, so we keep a close eye.
KEKOA PAULSEN

I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the r...
PAT PAULSEN

The fact that oil broke close to US$60 today caused a drop in S&P 500 energy stocks.
JIM PAULSEN

Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
PAT PAULSEN

Minnesotans are ticket splitters. They look to the candidate, not the party, which is the way it sho...
ERIK PAULSEN

This was not a year for macro-sector bets -- whoever bet on sectors, or indexes other than energy, g...
JAMES PAULSEN

What little earnings reports we have had have been a little bit more disappointing than outperformin...
JAMES PAULSEN

Business has tons and tons of capability to spend. The longer the recovery keeps going and stock pri...
JAMES PAULSEN

If they don?t raise rates, I will be worried. It tells me that they are very concerned and know some...
JAMES PAULSEN

With corporations sitting on excessively strong balance sheets, they've got the growth to set off a ...
JAMES PAULSEN

That's how the economy pushes forward; new things emerge that no one was thinking about.
JAMES PAULSEN

There are a lot of different things going on than there was ... People talk about a bubble in housin...
JAMES PAULSEN

We've got total labor compensation growing at 6 percent. . . . We've got record-setting highs in ter...
JAMES PAULSEN

If they don't raise rates, I will be worried. It tells me that they are very concerned and know some...
JAMES PAULSEN

This is definitely part of a major trend in the industry.
KIRK PAULSEN

We now have 500,000 editors using Final Cut Studio.
KIRK PAULSEN

We made some very dramatic changes based on input from users. We have been reading every single foru...
KIRK PAULSEN

Ironically, what he thought was a mission to bring life into this world cost him his own life.
JEFF PAULSEN

Anything Ronald Reed wanted, Mr. Clark could back it up with words and actions. They preached violen...
JEFF PAULSEN

Mr. Reed planned this entire event, he helped carry it out.
JEFF PAULSEN

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek...
ERIK PAULSEN

I'm not a supporter of ObamaCare. I voted to repeal it, to defund it, et cetera. But we do need ...
ERIK PAULSEN

I just want to listen and build relationships with as many of my colleagues as possible.
ERIK PAULSEN

Spending more time with my colleagues outside the Capitol helps build bipartisan relationships.
ERIK PAULSEN

We need a tax code that promotes savings, investment, achievement, innovation, and hard work.
ERIK PAULSEN

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out...
ERIK PAULSEN

Any law can be changed, obviously, at any time.
ERIK PAULSEN

Our democracy is predicated on the belief that our government should be accessible by the people. We...
ERIK PAULSEN

This program will use the network of more than 800 local Red Cross chapters across the country to he...
RUSS PAULSEN

One of the things that I'm really proud of is that I have really good timing. It's very easy...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

I influence anybody who is able to get through the chaos of my first impression.
GARY VAYNERCHUK

When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate ef...
GARY JENNINGS

I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two majo...
GARY JOHNSON

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK

Keep yourself motivated. You've got to be motivated, you've got to wake up every day and und...
GARY COHN

If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
GARY JOHNSON

You can be the moon and still be jealous of the stars.
GARY ALLAN

Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's...
GARY GYGAX

Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of lig...
GARY ZUKAV

When two people in an intimate-couple relationship look at their interactions as opportunities to le...
GARY ZUKAV

The more aware of your intentions and your experiences you become, the more you will be able to conn...
GARY ZUKAV

A spiritual partnership is between people who promise themselves to use all of their experiences to ...
GARY ZUKAV

The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a p...
GARY ZUKAV

There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The o...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we w...
GARY ZUKAV

The coming and going of the seasons give us more than the springtimes, summers, autumns, and winters...
GARY ZUKAV

The characteristics of an authentically empowered personality are humbleness, clarity, forgiveness a...
GARY ZUKAV

We cannot stop the winter or the summer from coming. We cannot stop the spring or the fall or make t...
GARY ZUKAV

The heart of the 2008 financial crisis was a coterie of reckless financial executives, working for t...
GARY WEISS

Enhanced interrogation is not to be considered lightly, but the use of enhanced interrogation techni...
GARY BAUER

I just see religious freedom, as a category, as just being a black hole.
GARY JOHNSON

Particularly black Americans, many of them, from quotes that I have seen and conversations I've ...
GARY BAUER

People are fed up with the way things are. There is a lot of bitterness out there, a lot of anger ab...
GARY LINEKER

I went to Berlin to study psychology but decided that I was more interested in music and started an ...
GARY WRIGHT

By the law of averages, there has to be life elsewhere. The universe is so huge, and I don't thi...
GARY WRIGHT

I was the first artist, I think, to ever do an all-keyboard album. There were things that resembled ...
GARY WRIGHT

Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.
GARY WRIGHT

I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performance...
GARY WRIGHT

I like Anastacia's version of Love is Alive best.
GARY WRIGHT

I will be developing artists for my new label. The rest is in God's Hands.
GARY WRIGHT

I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them...
GARY WRIGHT

In 1972, George Harrison invited me to accompany him on a trip to India.
GARY WRIGHT

My music and lyrics became an extension of this Indian philosophy.
GARY WRIGHT

The idea to do the album only on keyboards kind of happened by accident. I was quite happy with the ...
GARY WRIGHT

The more far-out artists, the better.
GARY WRIGHT

We visited Ravi. We didn't study with him, as such.
GARY WRIGHT

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying ...
GARY WRIGHT

Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be up...
GARY WRIGHT

No one likes to work for free. To copy an artist's work and download it free is stealing. It'...
GARY WRIGHT

Music's staying power is a function of how timeless the lyrics, song and production are.
GARY WRIGHT

Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessa...
GARY WOLF

Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
GARY WOLF

Every day the choristers of the social web chirp their advice about openness and trust; craigslist f...
GARY WOLF

The Internet's great promise is to make the world's information universally accessible and u...
GARY WOLF

As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it...
GARY WOLF

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where fami...
GARY WOLF

Sometimes entire categories of craigslist are rendered nearly unusable by spam. Con artists prowl th...
GARY WOLF

Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macin...
GARY WOLF

Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic...
GARY WOLF

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also m...
GARY WOLF

Humans make errors. We make errors of fact and errors of judgment. We have blind spots in our field ...
GARY WOLF

Being a 911 operator means balancing seemingly contradictory skills. On one hand, operators have to ...
GARY WOLF

The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it...
GARY WOLF

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware ...
GARY WOLF

If national safety - the ability to respond to hurricanes, terrorist attacks, earthquakes - depends ...
GARY WOLF

During a large disaster, like Hurricane Katrina, warnings get hopelessly jumbled. The truth is that,...
GARY WOLF

Beefs against debt collectors are consistently among the top complaints received by both the FTC and...
GARY WEISS

Oil futures were originally created to give heating oil dealers, gas retailers, aviation companies a...
GARY WEISS

Broadcasts from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange have propelled once-obscure financial journ...
GARY WEISS

At their worst, message boards can subject you to mindless braying or outright stock scams. But at t...
GARY WEISS

When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri...
GARY WEISS

George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger...
GARY WEISS

India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout i...
GARY WEISS

People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are ent...
GARY WEISS

With such enormous bucks devoted to trading in oil and other commodities, the distortions that they ...
GARY WEISS

Even a casual reader of the financial pages knows that microcaps are a perennial headache for regula...
GARY WEISS

Mutual funds dare to be average. In fact, they dare to be lousy. They have long since ceased strivin...
GARY WEISS

I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer,...
GARY WEISS

Indians are sometimes accused of being condescending toward Westerners and of being excessively prea...
GARY WEISS

The flip side of humiliation is pride.
GARY WEISS

Humiliating events have a way of capturing the public's imagination. So it has been since antiqu...
GARY WEISS

Some hedge fund managers have made big bucks trading oil futures - George Soros is one.
GARY WEISS

In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as w...
GARY WEISS

Excessive hype, bankruptcy, cash burning like autumn leaves - such is the stuff of short-selling.
GARY WEISS

One problem with the focus on speculation is that it tends to promote the growth of the great intell...
GARY WEISS

You can't believe the government - on anything. And you especially can't believe them when t...
GARY WEBB

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S....
GARY WEBB

Beaujolais is so underrated.
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GARY VAYNERCHUK

Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ...
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The reason we love our parents is because they loved us first. Every single company should take this...
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Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement...
GARY VAYNERCHUK

The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is g...
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It's insane to me to ask anybody to be what they're not. Know what you know the best, love t...
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I love people, and the hustle.
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When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. M...
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I am wired like a CEO and care a great deal about the bottom line, but I care about my customers eve...
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Stop doing things that waste time. Don't replace time with your family or things that you need t...
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The chef that grew up with the grandma who cooks tends to always beat the chef that went to the culi...
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My dad passed on asthma to me. It's kind of ironic because he outgrew it at 13.
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The key in controlling my asthma is pretty simple: I have a good professional diagnosis, and I follo...
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Asthma doesn't affect me, even though I have it. It can seem like it wants to act up a little if...
GARY VALENTINE

In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

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In sailing, I single-hand, and I want to do the Horn. The Horn is the maximum expression of sailing, the way the Iditarod is the maximum expression of running dogs. It's not to write about it; it's to experience the maximum thing.

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