Ocean Rowing Quotes & Sayings

I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others. — Louise Hay

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance. — Joel Plaskett

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important. — Roz Savage

Well, if it isn't Puff the Magic Dragon — Katie MacAlister

Shandy looked ahead. Blackbeard, apparently willing to get the explanation later, had picked up his oars and was rowing again.
'May I presume to suggest,' yelled Shandy giddily to Davies,
'that we preoceed the hell out of here with all due haste.'
Davies pushed a stray lock of hair back from his forehead and sat down on the rower's thwart. 'My dear fellow consider it done. — Tim Powers

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself. — Henry David Thoreau

A man's action is only a poicture book of his creed. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

and it seemed to me that we was like seafarers, and the tober was the ocean. We was passing the landlubbers by. We gawped at each other, us from our ships, and them from their shores, but the gap between us was so big we couldn't cross it. It was high tide or low tide, or whatever tide would prevent us from dropping anchor and rowing out to them, to exchange gifts and brides, gods and diseases" Outside Boy pg.55 — Jeanine Cummins

If you believe that all men are created equal, then a child's death in some other country is no less tragic than in the United States. — Bill Gates

It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests. — C.S. Lewis

A good shell has to have life and resiliency to get in harmony with the swing of the crew. — Daniel James Brown

Don't let the mist of circumstances block your imagination and stop you from making new beginnings. — Balroop Singh

I like to always lead from the front and set an example for whoever is playing with me or around me. I like taking responsibilities. That is my natural thing. — Virat Kohli

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed. — Channing Pollock

I always envisioned myself as traveling the ocean of life in a rowboat where my mother was one oar and my father, the other. Having two good, solid oars made rowing much easier. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I'm sick and tired of our generation being called the TV generation. What do you expect? We watched Lee Harvey Oswald get his brains blown out all over. How could we change the channel after that? — Denis Leary

Breaking out is following your bliss pattern, quitting the old place, starting your hero journey, following your bliss. You throw off yesterday as the snake sheds its skin. — Joseph Campbell