Swim Quotes - Page 28

• All things and all people in life have to sink or swim on their own merits, not their reputation; that just as a wise man can say a foolish thing, a fool can say something wise.

  Vincent Bugliosi

  Wise, Men, People

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• Wins and losses come a dime a dozen. But effort? Nobody can judge effort. Effort is between you and you. Effort ain't got nothing to do with nobody else.

  Ray Lewis

  Loss, Swimming, Winning

  "Ray Lewis Delivers Pregame Speech To Stanford Basketball Team" by Brian Floyd, www.sbnation.com. March 28, 2012.

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• We're emphasizing the knowable by predicting how certain people and companies will swim against the current. We're not predicting the fluctuation in the current.

  Charlie Munger

  People, Insightful, Investing

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• For missing a 10 minute swim - I think it was out of order really.

  Gareth Hock

  Thinking, Order, Missing

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• Even I felt sorry for Richard Nixon when he left; there's nothing you can do about being born liberal - fish gotta swim and hearts gotta bleed.

  Molly Ivins

  Sorry, Heart, Born

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.118, Vintage

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• I knew that the stronger that I was, the faster I was going to swim, and thats all I had in my mind at the time, was I wanted to be the best swimmer in the world.

  Dawn Fraser

  Mind, Stronger, World

  "The one that came the longest way!". "The Sports Factor" with Amanda Smith, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2001.

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• I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything

  Tom Daley

  Fun, Love Is, Jumping

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• I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.

  Eric Shanteau

  Dad, Missing, Would Be

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• We are all dropped into our lives on this planet with a limited amount of time and cosmic understanding, yet we know one thing for certain: we wish to live. We share this yearning for life and love with all the beings that fly, grow, slither or swim amongst us.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Life And Love, Understanding, Wish

  "Interview with United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Ian Somerhalder". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I want to get up in the morning and just roll over in my bed into an indoor swimming pool. And then swim to the breakfast table.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Morning, Swimming, Bed

  Tony Brown, Jimi Hendrix (2012). “Jimi Hendrix: 'Talking'”, p.130, Music Sales Group

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• I start my own frat, and try out for the women's swim team.

  Tommy Lee

  Team, Trying, My Own

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• I was the guy on the swim team entertaining the bus on the way to the meets.

  Kevin Hart

  Team, Guy, Way

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• Every wave is a water sprite who swims in the current, each current is a path which snakes towards my palace, and my palace is fluidly built at the bottom of the lake, in the triangle of earth, fire and water.

  Emile Zola

  Fire, Lakes, Snakes

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• There were several things a Yale freshman was supposed to be able to do. You had to demonstrate in the Olympic-size Yale pool that you could swim 50 yards or be inducted into swimming class.

  Dick Cavett

  Swimming, Yale, Class

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• Do you know how the naturalist learns all the secrets of the forest, of plants, of birds, of beasts, of reptiles, of fishes, of the rivers and the sea? When he goes into the woods the birds fly before him and he finds none; when he goes to the river bank, the fish and the reptile swim away and leave him alone. His secret is patience; he sits down, and sits still; he is a statue; he is a log.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sea, Rivers, Bird

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• You can't learn to swim on a piano bench.

  Milton H. Erickson

  Piano, Benches

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• For Jewish people, salmon has a special meaning, not just because it's a flavor we've had all along our diaspora. Salmon also have this special return-to-their-roots desire. At the end of their lives, salmon try to swim back to when they were born. Even if they can't, they have this obsession. We as diaspora people love that a lot about salmon.

  Charlemagne Palestine

  Roots, People, Special

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Inspiration is a divine element inside our life. When we are inspired, we try to climb up the Himalayas. When we are inspired, we try to swim the English Channel. When we are in spired, we go from one country to another country to inspire people and to be inspired by them. I feel that when we inspire humanity, we automatically become good citizens of the world. This is my philosophy. My weightlifting feats I have done solely to inspire humanity.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Country, Philosophy, Inspiration

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• Once a changemaker, always a changemaker but only a few swim against the tide.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Business, Tides

  Twitter post from Aug 7, 2013

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• The deepest hunger in life is a secret that is revealed only when a person is willing to unlock a hidden part of the self. In the ancient traditions of wisdom, this quest has been likened to diving for the most precious pearl in existence, a poetic way of saying that you have to swim far out beyond shallow waters, plunge deep into yourself, and search patiently until the pearl beyond price is found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Self, Water, Secret

  Deepak Chopra (2009). “The Book Of Secrets: Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I here?”, p.1, Random House

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• Be not the slave of your own past - plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Past, Diving Deep, Sea

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• I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk about what that underwater world might look like. And I'll say 'Dive in, man, and go see it. Swim around. You'll be okay.

  Stana Katic

  Men, Rivers, People

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• With time environmental issues got much more complicated. It is pretty easy, if you know what you are doing, to stop a company from pouring poison into a lake where kids swim. It is much harder to address all the myriad greenhouse gases emitted by different sources - from petrochemical refineries to hundreds of millions of peasants cutting down trees for their incredibly inefficient cook stoves.

  Denis Hayes

  Kids, Cutting, Lakes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The tough thing is how to cultivate a life where the paramecium of happiness gets a lot of chances to get out and swim and make more paramecia. That seems like an obvious universal goal for most humans.

  Leigh Newman

  Goal, Chance, Tough

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I don't think it's more positive to have a Twitter account, a Tumblr, and a blog. Someone without those things will use their time to do other things, like read books or swim or talk to their children or read websites or listen to music or write books or lie in bed or sit in a chair. I don't think any of these things are more positive than any other things. I don't think having an internet presence helps financially.

  Tao Lin

  Children, Lying, Book

  "Tao Lin: They See Me Trolling". Interview with Peter Heyneman, brightestyoungthings.com. February 4, 2011.

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