Riding the Wave Quotes

Even a Dead Fish Can Go with the Flow.”

Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That's what surfers do - take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control. In the last few thousand years, we've become incredibly adept technically. We've treasured the controlling part of ourselves and neglected the surrendering part.

When the good times come around, they gallup in like wild horses. You just try to stay on them for as long as you can. And when they throw you offyou just wait in the shade until they come around again.

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.

He's running for weather vane: he's got to see which way the wind is blowing to decide his position.]

Give me a wave I can ride upon, come and show your strength to me.

A wave isn't like a skate ramp or mountain; everything's moving around and you have to time how to move along with it. That's easier with a slow wave.

I've always thought of him [Barack Obama] and from conversations know him to be a guy who takes the long view, who doesn't get too high, doesn't get too low and seizes the opportunities when they're there and knows how to ride the wave. I ascribe that to Hawaii. He's a body surfer, so he knows how to get on the wave. He knows just the right time.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

The ground swell is what's going to sink you as well as being what buoys you up. These are cliches also, of course, and I'm sometimes interested in how much one can get away with.

Things get much easier if one jumps on the bandwagon of existing trends.

We must ride this strange torpedo out until the end.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

When something get hot, everybody want to jump on the bandwagon and act like they created it.

I just go with the flow, you know.

If something is working, don't fix it. Keep going. Go with the glow.

To convince people to back your idea, you've got to sell it to yourself and know when it's the moment. Sometimes that means waiting. It's like surfing. You don't create energy, you just harvest energy already out there.

Hype is wonderful when it happens, and you should capitalize on it. But you shouldn't bank on it being the thing that will take you to the next step. Because it's fleeting. The blah-blah-blah goes away, but you're still there.

When the universe throws something your way, or things happen, I'm one of those people that goes with it, and I don't fight it.

Sustained enthusiasm brings into existence a wave of creative energy, and all you have to do is 'ride the wave'.

An experience like 'The West Wing' is what I would imagine - even though I've never done it - that surfing feels like. It's, like, 'Whoa! I can just stand up here and ride this without all the anxiety!'

I just go with the flow.

Unless you paddle for the wave, you'll never know if you could catch it. But once you do... Ride it as long as you can. Love as long as you can.

It was all balance. But then, she already knew that from surfing.