Diana Nyad Quotes

In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.

Diana Nyad

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 22, 1949

Topics

AgeGreatLonelinessWaterOcean

I'm not a trained dancer - I know, I know, you're shocked, I'm sure.

Jessica Pare

YouKnowSureShockedDancer

I write for fun. I had written a kind of media satire, but I doubt it will see the light of day. It was just a personal project.

Michael Hastings

LightDayFunMediaDoubtPersonal

It's easy when you're working together to let work things overtake your life, when all you're talking about is work, and you never leave that space.

St. Lucia

LifeWorkWorking TogetherTogether

If your job requires that you spend a lot of time communicating with people across organizational boundaries, email is perfect. Email is the lowest common denominator, and it's going to cross organizational boundaries really well.

Stewart Butterfield

TimeJobPeopleYouPerfectEmail

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Tom DeLonge

ThinkDieTryingSayGravityOut

You always want to help people out.

Ron Johnson

PeopleHelpYouWantAlwaysOut

In L.A., we had a game room with a new sensation called Pac-Man.

Mary Lou Retton

GameNewRoomSensationHad

The silent movie is an emotional cinema: it's sensory; the fact that you don't go through a text brings you back to a basic way of telling a story predicated on the feelings you have created.

Michel Hazanavicius

StoryYouBackCinemaFeelingsGo

The worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Ludwig von Mises

GovernmentBadWorstEndureMankind

The minute you see that everything is going one way, you get the hell out.

Jonathan Anderson

HellYouWayEverythingSeeOut

I've always had good energy; I've always had good health.

Dick Gephardt

GoodGood HealthHealthEnergyHad

The poet is the voice of the people. And when the poet presents certain ideas, two phrases in one poem can alter a generation's view. So poets have always been feared - and controlled and jailed.

Donovan

PeopleIdeasVoiceGenerationView

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