Surfing Quotes - Page 16

• Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Medicine, Profound, Realization

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• When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

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• Photography, for me, is a lot like web surfing in real life.

  Alec Soth

  Photography, Real, Real Life

  "A Photographic Tour in the World of Alec Soth". Interview with Jane Gudmundson and Antony Anderson, mag-en.thephotoacademy.com. May 12, 2010.

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• Inventing is a lot like surfing: you have to anticipate and catch the wave at just the right moment.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Moments, Wave, Anticipate

  Ray Kurzweil (2005). “The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology”, p.25, Penguin

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• When I'm not acting, I'm at the beach. I like to spend a lot of time in the water, surfing.

  Brenton Thwaites

  Beach, Water, Acting

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• There's really only three things you can write music about: girls, cars and surfing.

  Tom Curren

  Girl, Writing, Car

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• I love sea salt spray but I hate being salty from the ocean, so I'll always shower after surfing, shampoo and condition my hair and then put in the salt spray. It's sort of a reverse cycle, but I just can't do the natural sea salt - it just feels too crunchy to go out with.

  Laura Enever

  Hate, Ocean, Hair

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I often give this metaphor where I say that writing short fiction is like surfing, while writing a novel is like navigating with your car. So when you navigate with your car, you want to get somewhere. When you surf, you don't want to get somewhere, you just don't want to fall off your board.

  Etgar Keret

  Fall, Writing, Giving

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• Hawaii is the birthplace of surfing, and many Hawaiians or part-Hawaiians surf, but in the rest of the United States it's a pretty white sport.

  William Finnegan

  Sports, White, United States

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• There are big surfing communities in every country with an ocean coast that I know in Central and South America. Same with Mexico, Bali, and nearly every island nation that gets waves in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. But that's a relatively recent development in most places.

  William Finnegan

  Country, Ocean, Islands

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Software development takes immense intellectual effort. Even the best programmers can rarely sustain that level of effort for more than a few hours a day. Beyond that, they need to rest their brains a bit, which is why they always seem to be surfing the Internet or playing games when you barge in on them.

  Joel Spolsky

  Playing Games, Effort, Intellectual

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• Our album 'Show No Mercy' came out in late '83, and we did three or four shows in San Francisco after the release. That was our first experience with stage-divers, crowd-surfing, people walking on people across an entire crowd.

  Tom Araya

  San Francisco, People, Four

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• I am riveted by extreme sports like big-wave surfing, 'megaramp' skateboarding and half pipe snowboarding. I am fascinated partly because the sports are so exhilaratingly acrobatic. But I am also captivated by the fear that a terrible accident might happen at any moment. And accidents do happen.

  Lucy Walker

  Sports, Snowboarding, Skateboarding

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• Not to sound too deep or weird, but I assume that the occasions once you pretty take pleasure in surfing are the occasions you are extremely kind of getting a single with nature.

  Kelly Slater

  Sound, Assuming, Kind

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• The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

  John Slattery

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The attraction of snowboarding is the freedom it gives you. With a snowboard on your feet the sky is the limit. You can do anything and go anywhere. This is not just for pro riders. It is for everyone.
  The other amazing thing with snowboarding is how easy it is to get away from people and enjoy the solitude of the mountains. Its almost impossible in surfing but with snowboarding it is a short hike from the top of the lift or the side of the road.

  Jeremy Jones

  Freedom, Sky, Feet

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• Actually, watching television and surfing the Internet are really excellent practice for being dead.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Practice, Television, Internet

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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• Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

  Kelly Slater

  Ifs

  "Kelly Slater: 'Surfing is my religion'" by Nick Glass and Natasha Maguder, www.cnn.com. June 6, 2013.

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• In the dim background of our mind we know meanwhile what we ought to be doing: getting up, dressing ourselves, answering the person who has spoken to us, trying to make the next step in our reasoning. But somehow we cannot start.

  William James

  Philosophical, Mind, Backgrounds

  "Psychology: The Briefer Course".

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• I'm a tropical weather cruiser. I like surfing, you know. I like being on the beach.

  Michael B. Jordan

  Beach, Weather, Tropical

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• Going with the flow is responding to cues from the universe. When you go with the flow, you’re surfing Life force. It’s about wakeful trust and total collaboration with what’s showing up for you.

  Danielle LaPorte

  Life, Trust, Opportunity

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• God created the heavens and the earth, the oceans and the waves for our enjoyment. Surfing is just my way of worshipping Him.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Ocean, Heaven, Earth

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• We're all equal before a wave.

  Laird Hamilton

  Wave, Equal

  Laird Hamilton (2008). “Force of Nature: Mind, Body, Soul (And, of Course, Surfing)”, p.180, Rodale

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• I'm a Christian now. The things that drove me crazy growing up was how everyone works at fault-finding with different religions. The people I don't understand are atheists. I go surfing and snow boarding and I'm always around nature. I look at everything and think, 'Who couldn't believe there's a God? Is all this a mistake?' It just blows me away.

  Paul Walker

  Christian, Atheist, Growing Up

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

  Bethany Hamilton

  Impact, May, Next

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