Swimming Quotes - Page 13

• Most people exist in very clouded states of mind. It's sort of like when you're underwater in a big swimming pool and you open your eyes, and you can't see very far and everything is distorted.

  Frederick Lenz

  Eye, People, Mind

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• Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It's like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Self, Reincarnation

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• An Australian swimmer who failed to win a gold medal is blaming her loss on social media. In her defense, it is really hard to tweet when you're swimming.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Loss, Winning

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• I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Darkness, Curls, Flesh

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• Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.272, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Inspirational, Thanksgiving, Thankful

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• Handball, swimming, running, jumping, basketball, and boxing were as much a part of me as breathing.

  Gene Tunney

  Basketball, Sports, Running

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• We are contemporary citizens living in a technological world. Swimming in crosscultural waters can be dangerous, and if you are honest you can't stay there very long. Sooner or later you have to look at your own reflection and decide what to do with yourself. We are urban people. We make periodic pilgrimages to the country. . . . If we align ourselves with the spirit of place we will find humility fused with joy. The land holds stories.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Country, Humility, Reflection

  Terry Tempest Williams (1984). “Pieces of White Shell: A Journey to Navajoland”, p.136, UNM Press

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• Nothing is impossible. With so many people saying it couldn't be done, all it takes is an imagination.

  Michael Phelps

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  Nick Hexum

  Firsts, Chill, Adages

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• A fine and beautiful life lies before thee, because thou hast a lively mind and a good wit. Thine arms are very strong and sturdy. Swimming hath helped to make them so, but only because thou hast had the will to do it. Fret not, my son. None of us is perfect. It is better to have crooked legs than a crooked spirit. We can only do the best we can with what we have. That, after all, is the measure of success: what we do with what we have.

  Marguerite de Angeli

  Beautiful, Strong, Lying

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• Solving problems is a practical skill like, let us say, swimming. We acquire any practical skill by imitation and practice. Trying to swim, you imitate what other people do with their hands and feet to keep their heads above water, and, finally, you learn to swim by practicing swimming. Trying to solve problems, you have to observe and to imitate what other people do when solving problems, and, finally, you learn to do problems by doing them.

  George Polya

  Education, Math, Hands

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• I know something about performing. I know that when it seems like the avalanche is about to roll over you, you face into it and keep both arms swimming as hard as you can. You smile and you sell it.

  Jillian Lauren

  Over You, Arms, Faces

  Jillian Lauren (2010). “Some Girls: My Life in a Harem”, p.68, Penguin

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• I come to Maui and go surfing, standup paddling, slacklining, swimming, and free-diving.

  Julia Mancuso

  Free Diving, Surfing, Paddling

  "Olympic Skier Julia Mancuso Trains in Sand, Not Snow". Interview with Cristina Goyanes, www.shape.com. October 21, 2013.

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• You don't accomplish much by swimming with the mainstream. Hell, a dead fish can do that.

  Kinky Friedman

  Hell, Mainstream, Accomplish

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• I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.

  Theophilus London

  Snowboarding, Skiing

  "Theophilus London Doesn’t Have a Driver’s License, But He Drives Around Anyway". Interview with Bennett Marcus, www.vanityfair.com. February 12, 2013.

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• In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

  Maurice Bejart

  Dance, Cinema, Love Poetry

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• A dozen swimming events have already been completed in the Olympic competition. I wonder where they got the name 'Speedo.' It doesn't sound like a bathing suit, it sounds like a breakfast cereal for meth addicts.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Cereal, London Olympics

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• In most sports they have a physical effect on your performance, in swimming only psychological. If you worry about what your rival is doing, you take your mind off what you are doing and so fail to concentrate on your performance.

  Louis Fabian Bachrach, Jr.

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I can definitely take more off my world record - a lot more. I have no doubt about that. I'm by no means putting pressure on myself, it's just the belief I have in myself......I'm not going to limit myself by nominating times or anything like that. I never thought I'd do 14:34 and I did. I thought I'd maybe do 14:38 or 14:39 that day, and I went nearly five seconds quicker so I don't want to limit the possibilities

  Grant Hackett

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• I was so surprised. Then again, I was so relaxed in the water, it felt amazing

  Pieter van den Hoogenband

  Motivational, Sports, Athlete

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• If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.

  Neil Young

  Want, Lost, Rhythm

  Song: Like An Inca, Album: Trans

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• The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

  Leonard Cohen

  Summer, Moon, Night

  Song: Closing Time, Album: The Future, 1992

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• He who holds the hook is aware in what waters many fish are swimming.

  Ovid

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Ovid, John Henry Mozley (1979). “Ovid”, Loeb Classical Library

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• England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

  Henry James

  Men, Clothes, England

  Henry James (1947). “The American Novels and Stories of Jenry James”

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