Swimming Quotes - Page 10

• The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

  Zig Ziglar

  Depth, Height, Determined

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• The only way Congress can get one dollar to spend is to take that one dollar from Americans, borrow that one dollar from Americans, or inflate that one dollar from Americans. So, it's very much like the visual image of a swimming pool. A person notes there is a shallow end, so he takes the water out of the deep end and pours it in the shallow end, hoping to raise the height of the water in the pool - and you would call that person stupid.

  Walter E. Williams

  Stupid, Water, Dollars

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• The thing that kills me is all these bands that use huge words in their lyrics, 'I'm swimming in a vortex of apathy.' I'm like, 'What?' I don't walk up to a friend and go 'That's a stylin' looking vortex of apathy you've got there pal. I was swimming up a river of deceit myself.'

  Devin Townsend

  Rivers, Apathy, Deceit

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• Telling me that I’m obsessed with talking about racism in America is like telling me I’m obsessed with swimming when I’m drowning.

  Hari Kondabolu

  America, Talking, Racism

  "Hari Kondabolu on Why You Can't Be 'Obsessed With Race' in America" by Jamilah King, www.colorlines.com. February 6, 2014.

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• Prove to me that you're no fool Walk across my swimming pool.

  Tim Rice

  Fool, Superstar, Pool

  'Herod's Song' (1970; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber)

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• I'm satisfied in a way because this is an eye opener for me, ... I didn't have the success I've always been able to have. I learned a lot.

  Michael Phelps

  Eye, Able, Way

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• The vineyard country, russet, reddish, carmine-brown in this season.
  A blue outline of hills above a fertile valley.
  It's warm as long as the sun does not set, in the shade cold returns.
  A strong sauna and then swimming in a pool surrounded by trees.
  Dark redwoods, transparent pale-leved birches.
  In their delicate network, a sliver of the moon.
  I describe this for I have learned to doubt philosophy
  And the visible world is all that remains.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Country, Strong, Philosophy

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• Doing is a quantum leap from imagining. Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away. The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong. Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

  Barbara Sher

  Jobs, Thinking, Water

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• It's like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

  Mary Daly

  Swim, Like You

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• Pleasure unparalleled, into the ocean of love we fell. Swimming in the timeless currents of pure bliss, fantasies interchanging with every kiss.

  LL Cool J

  Romantic, Ocean, Kissing

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• We wanted to see how close we could get to the world record. We'll take that for right now.

  Michael Phelps

  Records, World, Wanted

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• Where was he, her Alexander, of once? Was he truly gone? The Alexander of the Summer Garden, of their first Lazarevo days, of the hat in his hands, white toothed, peaceful, laughing, languid, stunning Alexander, had he been left far behind? Well, Tatiana supposed that was only right. For Alexander believed his Tatiana of once was gone, too. The swimming child Tatiana of the Luga, of the Neva, of the River Kama. Perhaps on the surface they were still in their twenties, but their hearts were old.

  Paullina Simons

  Summer, Children, Heart

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• What a culture we live in, we are swimming in an ocean of information, and drowning in ignorance.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Ocean, Ignorance, Culture

  Richard Paul Evans (2014). “A Step of Faith: A Novel”, p.208, Simon and Schuster

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• Cath felt like she was swimming in words. Drowning in them, sometimes.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Sometimes, Drowning, Felt

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.74, Pan Macmillan

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• When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

  Dan Brown

  Dark, Tunnels, Choices

  Dan Brown (2014). “Inferno: Special Illustrated Edition (Enhanced): Featuring Robert Langdon”, p.207, Knopf

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• it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Fall, Trying, Cliffs

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell Collection: Eleanor & Park, Fangirl, Landline, and Carry On”, p.532, St. Martin's Griffin

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• If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

  Mark Spitz

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sports

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• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Hollywood

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• Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

  Henry Mintzberg

  Leadership, Reading

  Henry Mintzberg (1980). “The Nature of Managerial Work”, Prentice Hall

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• Love is not a feeling; it's a sensation. Drinking water when you're thirsty is a sensation, not a feeling. Being in nature or swimming in the sea is a sensation, not a feeling. Lying down when you're tired is sensational, not a feeling, although you may say it feels good. Feeling is an emotional interpretation of experience and these sensations don't need interpretation; they are just good or right. Making physical love rightly is a sensation, not a feeling. So is the love of God. The same goes for joy and beauty; both are sensational.'

  Barry Long

  Life, Lying, Drinking

  "Love is not a feeling" by Barry Long, What is Enlightenment magazine, Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• Museums just seem to have this borrowed cachet—if I want to seem cultural, I will design something cultural. I resist the idea that culture is only opera houses or theatres. Culture is your entire life around you: toilets, the bus, the kerb or the dump where you drag your waste. Culture has come to mean the arts, but it’s swimming pools as well.

  Thomas Heatherwick

  Art, Mean, Ideas

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• My favorite, and I repeat it often while swimming is from a well known coach around here

  Bob Bruce

  My Favorite, Well Known, Wells

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• We're all a little tired.

  Michael Phelps

  Tired, Littles

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• Coming into tonight, I knew it was going to be a great race, ... In the 400, Laszlo put up a 4:10.1 earlier in the year, and so you expect him to put up a good time in (the 200). I knew Ryan was going to be fast coming off his short course season, and he's improved a lot since Athens, so I just wanted to go out there and relax a bit and go out there and do what I had to do.

  Michael Phelps

  Race, Years, Relax

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• On singing in the swimming pool: "If I can move the water, I can move the people.

  Michael Bolton

  Moving, People, Water

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