Strokes Quotes - Page 17

• Nobody Beats Us! served as our main trigger... We practiced using trigger words, private verbal keys, which unlocked certain thoughts for us. We had a half-dozen phrases-some dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with maintaining our technique, two dealt with our stroke rating. The most powerful phrase was 'Nobody Beats Us!' According to our plan, when I said these words to Paul toward the end of the race, we would immediately shift into our final sprint, rowing as high and hard as possible, straight through, until we crossed the finish line.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Powerful, Keys, Race

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• Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

  Edward Taub

  Giving, Suffering, Patient

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• Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with a small axe, every stroke helping to get rid of the unwanted fragments of wood.

  Mahasi Sayadaw

  Mean, Cutting, Mindfulness

  Vidagama Maitreya, Mahasi Sayadaw, Susan Elbaum Jootla, Nyanaponika Thera, Ria Kloppenborg (2013). “Collected Wheel Publications Volume XX: Numbers 296–311”, p.76, Buddhist Publication Society

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• You look at a guy like Lance Armstrong, and you have to be inspired. I sat next to Kirk Douglas the other day, and he's inspiring for fighting through his stroke

  Ed Harris

  Inspiring, Fighting, Guy

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• To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult

  Madonna Ciccone

  Littles, Painting, Process

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• I am a very conscientious golfer. I count every stroke. I learned to play that way. That is the only way I can play. It taught me to be honest. There is no greater virtue than honesty.

  Martin Sheen

  Honesty, Play, Way

  Interview with David Kupfer, progressive.org. July 1, 2003.

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• A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

  John Arlott

  Men, Walking Sticks, Cricket

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Tennis players we're always playing in center courts that feel like arenas. And when we get on the court and the crowd cheers your name or salutes you - it's like you're a gladiator in the arena. And everyone is cheering - and you're fighting, you're screaming, during your strokes - it feels like you're an animal, fighting for your life.

  Novak Djokovic

  Cheer, Fighting, Animal

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• Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Circles, Vicious, Turns

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• For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

  Julian Casablancas

  Long, Want, Process

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• Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.

  Daryl Hall

  Heart, Causes, Problem

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• In Washington, as we learned from the White House transcripts, a president may speak of kicking butts, call a problem a can of worms, decide not to be in the position of basically hunkering down, anticipate something hitting the fan, propose to tough it through, sight minefields down the road, see somebody playing hard ball, claim political savvy, and wonder what stroke some of his associates have with others.

  Edwin Newman

  Sight, White, House

  Edwin Newman (1974). “Strictly Speaking: Will america be the Death of English?”

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• The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  World, Philosopher, Logic

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• When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following months, I not only lost 50 pounds, but gained strength in my legs and picked up stamina. Now, at age 93, I'm on the same plant-based diet, and I still don't eat any meat or dairy products. I either swim, walk, or paddle a canoe daily and I feel the best I've felt since my heart problems began.

  Benjamin Spock

  Heart, Vegetarian Diet, Years

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• Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it the tanner who has barked it, or he who has boxed it for turpentine, whom posterity will fable to have been changed into a pine at last? No! no! it is the poet: he it is who makes the truest use of the pine-who does not fondle it with an axe, nor tickle it with a saw, nor stroke it with a plane. . . .

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Friendship, Nature

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated): Biographies, Memoirs, Autobiographical Books & Personal Letters (Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada…)”, p.597, e-artnow

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• Old golfers don't win (it's not an absolute, it's a general rule). Why? The older golfer can hit the ball as far as the young one. He chips and putts equally well. And will probably have a better knowledge of the course. So why does he take the extra stroke that denies him victory? Experience. He knows the downside, what happens if it goes wrong, which makes him more cautious. The young player is either ignorant or reckless to caution. That is his edge. It is the same with all of us. Knowledge makes us play safe. The secret is to stay childish.

  Paul Arden

  Winning, Player, Victory

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• Then it crosses my mind, "But I’m a very busy woman! I don’t have time for a stroke!"

  Jill Bolte Taylor

  Motivation, Inspiration, Mind

  "My stroke of insight". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2008.

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• Programming is similar to a game of golf. The point is not getting the ball in the hole but how many strokes it takes.

  Hayley Mills

  Learning, Golf, Games

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• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  Vince Cable

  Cat, Cutting, Thinking

  "Vince Cable hits out at 'backward' Tory rightwingers" by Patrick Wintour and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2012.

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• I make a pussy purr with the stroke of my hand.

  Ted Nugent

  Hands, Pussy

  "Song: 'Cat Scratch Fever'". 1977.

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• Yo, I'm the illest. Plus I know more different strokes than Arnold and Willis.

  Big Daddy Kane

  Different, Plus, Egotism

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• I believe in animal rights, and high among them is the right to the gentle stroke of a human hand.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Animal, Rights

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• The publication in 1859 of the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin made a marked epoch in my own mental development, as it did in that of human thought generally. Its effect was to demolish a multitude of dogmatic barriers by a single stroke, and to arouse a spirit of rebellion against all ancient authorities whose positive and unauthenticated statements were contradicted by modern science.

  Francis Galton

  Science, Development, Spirit

  Francis Galton (2015). “Memories of My Life”, p.211, Routledge

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• Each family prayer, each episode of family scripture study, and each family home evening is a brushstroke on the canvas of our souls. No one event may appear to be very impressive or memorable. But just as the yellow and gold and brown strokes of paint complement each other and produce an impressive masterpiece, so our consistency in doing seemingly small things can lead to significant spiritual results.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Prayer, Home

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