Paul Parker Quotations

Allow me a bit of philosophy here... We started tele skiing as a rebellion against rules.

For me, being able to go anywhere you want, with an element of precision and control, has been the goal.

Challenging snow is one of my favorite kinds of skiing, and I like being able to switch techniques at liberty.

One item on my agenda is simply planning trips, setting them as goals, something to look forward to.

The best indication is that I still love to ski on most anything, from skating gear to heavy metal.

There are many skiers who have chosen tele for a more compact, streamlined skiing system.

We have to be careful about creating more rules.

I wanted to feel that precision and control and then try to apply it to tele. That's what I've looked for in my gear development through the years, and today, tele is very precise, very high-performance.

Feeling a part of that community is my greatest reward.

If an appraisal is done, it basically describes that item and puts a current value on it. If it can be replaced, it will be replaced. If not, the claims department can look at the appraisal.

What will reinvent Alpine is if we create too many rules, create too much of a scene that obscures the value of a very cool, elegant, free sport.

Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism -- every religion believes in prayer for healing. Some call it prayer, some call it cleansing the mind. The words or posture may vary. But in times of illness, all religions look toward their source of authority.

People like to feel they are buying of their own good judgment as a result of the information the salesman has given them

We've been experiencing that (same pinch) as everyone else.

Though we had a good sales tax year, it's not enough to offset electric and fuel bills. We don't want to raise property taxes. We're looking at other growth to pay these bills.

We are a bunch of passionate people, passionate about our sport, and it's human nature, too, to want to think that our way is the right way.

We've just been overwhelmed by the number of people that are coming through Lufkin as they evacuate the Gulf Coast area.

We've received word from the National Weather Service that tropical-force weather should hit Lufkin sometime between 5:30 and 10 a.m. Saturday morning, ... Projections have Hurricane Rita making landfall somewhere in the Jefferson County area by about 11 a.m. Saturday.

Even as the sport evolves into different kinds of riders in different environments, there still seems to be a common thread that makes us a community.

Some will say that tele has lost its soul with the new gear. My feeling is that if people don't want to use the big stuff, they don't have to.

Our shelters are at capacity, and in some cases, they're overflowing with people,

Our dilemma is the schools need to get back to the education business. This is the sixth day that we have been at full capacity at all of our shelters,

People should not leave their homes now if they don't have to,

Some departments use it quite heavily; others don't, ... The ones that utilize it think it's a very good program. The ones that don't utilize it think it's a program we might not should be involved in.

Novell already has a production-grade, scalable directory, and extending it to incorporate additional network elements such as switches and routers is very appealing, ... In terms of what's available for sale today, nothing compares to it.

It's just part of our effort to continue providing adequate health benefits without raising the cost to our employees,

In each of these companies I do whatever needs to be done, whether it's ideas, testing, marketing, catalog copy-writing, or dishes.

If you live in a mobile home or in areas that are prone to flooding, please make arrangements to leave town before the storm hits,

If you wait until it floods, it'll be too late,

By alpine I mean that the gear is viable for ski mountaineering and touring in mountains as rugged as the Alps, or Alaska, or Canada.

Come winter, I'm up at 5am every morning just because it's out there. Waiting for it to get light. There is so much to do on skis.

These items can become missiles and they can stop storm drainage,