Diving Quotes - Page 2

• The only way you're going to get through life, happily, is being yourself.

  Nikki Blonsky

  Basketball, Being Yourself, Way

  "Nikki Blonsky Talks to Seventeen About Huge!". Interview with Neha Gandhi, www.seventeen.com. July 1, 2010.

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• Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't.

  James Cameron

  Ocean, Giving, Scuba

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• I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I know I'm in a very fortunate minority and hope my story inspires both adults and children to be more careful.

  Brooke Burns

  Children, Life Changing, Helping Others

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• Successful technologies often begin as hobbies. Jacques Cousteau invented scuba diving because he enjoyed exploring caves. The Wright brothers invented flying as a relief from the monotony of their normal business of selling and repairing bicycles.

  Freeman Dyson

  Brother, Successful, Technology

  Freeman Dyson (1999). “Imagined World”, p.17, Universities Press

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• I love skiing, scuba diving and hang-gliding.

  Ewan McGregor

  Gliding, Scuba, Skiing

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• The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beach, Nature, Ocean

  Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1978). “Life and death in a coral sea”

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• Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

  David Lynch

  Selfish, Meditation, World

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• When diving to attack always leave a proportion of your formation above to act as top guard.

  Adolph Malan

  Aviation, Proportion, Combat

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• I actually love diving at night; you see a lot of fish then that you don't see in the daytime.

  Sylvia Earle

  Night, Fishes, Daytime

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• Free-diving is all about being lean, being super-flexible, and having a good breath hold.

  Tanc Sade

  Free Diving, Flexible, Breaths

  Source: collider.com

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• The only work I ever turned down was a cable programme called Diving for Excrement.

  Emo Philips

  Turned Down, Programmes, Cables

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• Love does not appear with any warning signs. You fall into it as if pushed from a high diving board.

  Jackie Collins

  Falling In Love, Falling For You, Doe

  Jackie Collins (2013). “Lucky”, p.524, Chances Inc.

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• As long as there's a body of water nearby, I'm happy. Pools don't count. I like diving into the ocean and coming out refreshed.

  Sarah Carter

  Ocean, Long, Water

  "Sarah Sanguin Carter: Esquire's Summer Hostess". Interview with Steve Ciccarelli, www.esquire.com. June 6, 2011.

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• Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

  Padgett Powell

  Nice, Book, Writing

  Interview with Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 30, 2012.

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• If diving once does not bring you pearls, you need not therefore conclude that the sea is without them.

  Ramakrishna

  Healing, Sea, Doe

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• I like doing things that scare me. I went bungee jumping, but sky diving is just the sickest thing.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Jumping, Sky, Scare

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• The meaning of life is found by diving deep, deep within.

  Vishnudevananda Saraswati

  Diving Deep, Meditation, Meaning Of Life

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• Free-diving is all about dealing with anxiety. I've blacked out a few times. I've had big black-outs.

  Tanc Sade

  Free Diving, Anxiety, Black

  Source: collider.com

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• Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Diving Deep, Meditation, Moments

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• I ended up spending years on a spiritual quest - diving into the world's great spiritual traditions.

  Brandon Bays

  Spiritual, Years, World

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• I miss the ocean. I miss diving into the cold water and coming out a new man. On the road it's hard to get that feeling. Showers are okay, but there's nothing quite like being in the ocean.

  Angus Stone

  Ocean, Men, Water

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The clock is ticking and you're hearing the beat. You stop by a museum shop, sign your name on a scuba-diving sheet, and commit yourself to Saturday mornings in the deep end. You're either losing your mind - or gaining your soul. Life is meant to be an artist date. That's why we were created.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Life, Morning, Artist

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• What do you miss about being alive?" The sound of my mom singing, a little off-key. The way my dad went to all my swim meets and I could hear his whistle when my head was underwater, even if he did yell at me afterward for not trying harder. I miss going to the library. I miss the smell of clothes fresh out of the dryer. I miss diving off the highest board and nailing the landing. I miss waffles" - p. 272.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Mom, Dad, Smell

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• Sorry. I have technical difficulties making it through a room without bumping into something. Thank God my clumsiness is only restricted to the ground. I’d probably kill myself diving if I was this bad underwater. (Tory)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Sorry, Thank God, Underwater

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.498, Macmillan

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• Hooking on scuba gear and blindly diving into zombie-infested water is a wonderful way to mix the two childhood terrors of being eaten and drowning.

  Max Brooks

  Two, Water, Childhood

  Max Brooks (2003). “The Zombie Survival Guide: Complete Protection from the Living Dead”, p.145, Broadway Books

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