Swimming Quotes - Page 27

• Being your best is not so much about overcoming the barriers other people place in front of you as it is about overcoming the barriers we place in front of ourselves.

  Kieren Perkins

  People, Overcoming, Swimmer

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• After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency.

  Sam Walton

  Real, Persistence, Secret

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• If I gave this guy more time, there would be a swimming pool and rattan furniture.

  Joe Teti

  Guy, Survival, Would Be

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• There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can’t say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.

  Kabir

  Book, Ivory, Water

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• I find above all that the expression, atonal music, is most unfortunate — it is on a par with calling flying the art of not falling, or swimming the art of not drowning.

  Arnold Schoenberg

  Art, Fall, Expression

  Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Stein (1975). “Style and Idea: Selected Writings of Arnold Schoenberg”, p.210, Univ of California Press

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• I was relaxing in my parents' swimming pool with my brother, Peter. I asked him how the engineering business was going, and he reciprocated: 'How's the ministry world going?' 'Okay,' I said, 'except that a couple of weeks ago I realized that I don't know why Jesus had to die.' Then Peter, without skipping a beat, without even a moment's hesitation, said, 'Well, neither did Jesus.'

  Brian D. McLaren

  Jesus, Couple, Engineering

  "More Ready Than You Realize: The Power of Everyday Conversations".

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• I love swimming because racing.

  Ryan Lochte

  Racing, I Love Swimming

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• A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

  Missy Franklin

  Fun, Huge, I Love Swimming

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• You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

  Mark Warkentin

  Olympian

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• Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

  Stephanie Rice

  Sports, Hardest

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• I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

  Stephanie Rice

  Mean, Thinking, People

  "Stephanie Rice, champion swimmer". "Sunday Profile" with Monica Attard, www.abc.net.au. March 14, 2010.

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• If anarchists are idealists, they may simply be likened to someone who finds himself swimming in a cesspool and, rather than paddling about looking for the area with the least amount of floating faeces, seeks to climb out of the pool completely.

  Robert Higgs

  Floating, Paddling, May

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• Awareness of having better things to do with their lives is the secret to immunizing our children against false values--whether presented on television or in "real life." The child who finds fulfillment in music or reading or cooking or swimming or writing or drawing is not as easily convinced that he needs recognition or power or some "high" to feel worthwhile.

  Polly Berrien Berends

  Children, Real, Reading

  Polly Berrien Berends (1987). “Whole child, whole parent”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Domesticated salmon, after several generations, are fat, listless things that are good at putting on weight, not swimming up fast-moving rivers. When they get into a river and breed with wild fish, they can damage the wild fish's prospects of surviving to reproduce.

  Charles Clover

  Moving, Rivers, Damage

  Charles Clover (2008). “The End of the Line: How Overfishing is Changing the World and what We Eat”, p.312, Univ of California Press

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• Given the huge size of Aegirocassis and its very alien appearance, I assume most people would probably be terrified if they'd encounter it while swimming. However, contrary to almost all other anomalocaridids which were active predators, our animal would have been a very peaceful guy.

  Benjamin Van Roy

  Animal, People, Guy

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• Your core is so important. Get your endurance up. Running and long-distance. Swimming is good as well. Important to have a good core, utilize the proper exercises to strengthen it. It goes out to the rest of your body and makes sure your body is right.

  Jozy Altidore

  Running, Distance, Exercise

  Source: www.askmen.com

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• When you're younger and dumber, as a guy, you do things because you think you have to, because that's how things are done. You wait the standard three days to call, you don't approach the beautiful girl at the bar because you automatically assume she's out of your league, you'd rather jump in a swimming pool filled with jellyfish than tell a woman that you have feelings for her, etc.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Beautiful, Girl, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I lead a very physical life. I played a lot of sports and I spent a lot of time in the water surfing, swimming. I was a big swimmer.

  Dustin Clare

  Sports, Water, Surfing

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• I think the main thing is: Just do it. Plunge in! Being Canadian, I go swimming in icy cold lakes, and there is always that dithering moment. "Am I really going to do this? Won't it hurt?" And at some point you just have to flop in there and scream. Once you're in, keep going. You may have to crumple and toss, but we all do that. Courage! I think that is what's most required.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Thinking, Lakes

  FaceBook post by Margaret Atwood from Dec 31, 2014

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• Solving problems is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano: you can learn it only by imitation and practice.

  George Polya

  Art, Practice, Piano

  George Pólya (1968). “Mathematical discovery: on understanding, learning, and teaching problem solving”

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• It's great to have two cars and a swimming pool. But there are disappointments. After you've made some money and acquired some things, and after the initial excitement has passed, life goes on, just as bewildering as it always was, and the great problems of life and death once again come to the fore.

  Robert Heilbroner

  Disappointment, Two, Life And Death

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• Two young salmon are swimming along one day. As they do, they are passed by a wiser, older fish coming the other way. The wiser fish greets the two as he passes, saying, "Morning boys, how's the water?" The other two continue to swim in silence for a little while, until the first one turns to the other and asks, "What the hell is water?"

  David Foster Wallace

  Morning, Boys, Two

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• I like to do outdoorsy things: hikes, trails, running, swimming. I love the sun. I'm all about the warmth.

  Alicia Keys

  Running, Sun, Trails

  "Best Celebrity Body Transformations of 2008", www.glamour.com.

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• When I put something into motion, the creativity starts to make other people want to jump in, and then a lot of people get employed. I'm just like a shark, in that way. If I stop swimming, I'll die.

  Adam Shankman

  Creativity, Sharks, People

  Source: collider.com

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• Yes, my parents are strict about me having a childhood. I go ice skating and sledding, and swimming in the summer.

  Jackie Evancho

  Summer, Ice, Childhood

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