“I know a fellow who met a fellow whose mother makes garden gnomes, and when his father died, his mother made a gnome out of the ashes and she keeps it in the front garden of the family home.” — Matt Webb

“I've always thought of myself as an 80 percenter. I like to throw myself passionately into a sport or activity until I reach 80 percent proficiency level. To go beyond that requires an obsession and degree of specialization that doesn't appeal to me.” — Yves Chouinard

“This is not the life I was meant to live. I don’t know what that life is, what it looks like, but I know it’s not this.”