Quotes About Reflection

Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.

Poems that come swiftly are usually the ones that you keep.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

I can no longer walk. I can no longer swim. But I'm lucky when I see how animals suffer.

I swim in a sea of words. They flow around me and through me and, by a process that is not fully clear to me, some delicate hidden membrane draws forth the stuff that is the necessary condition of my life.

If I swim in the ocean, I have a shark thought. Not a bad one, but just a little one.

I grew up by the Mississippi River, and I would swim in that as a kid.

In my 20s, I was leaving university, getting married, or having a baby. And then, in my 30s, I was just keeping my head above water. When I hit 40, I thought, 'I have got to get a grip of my life and really point it in the direction I want it to go rather than just swim hard against the current.'

I don't ever want to get to the point where I don't think about death! You've got to swim in it, learn from it - embrace it!

A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.

I realise every swimmer has a shelf life. No, I haven't given any thought to when I will retire, but I also know I won't be able to swim forever.

I can sit back in 10, 15, 20 years, when I'm sitting with my kids, I'll be able to say that I'm sitting in Ravens Stadium during a game, and I'm watching one of the best swimmers ever win a Gold for the U.S. You know, as you get older, you cherish those kinds of moments.

You obviously don't really forget how to play the old songs; you just don't have to spend so much time convincing yourself that you remember them. Way less mental energy is spent swimming around in lyrics you've already written and chords you've already played.

I'm pretty over swimming, guys.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Swimming forced me to deal with the things I wanted to escape. It helped me work through a lot of feelings and frustrations, because I had hours under water just to swim laps and think.

I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it's just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.

Swimming is only half of your life, so you have to think about what you're going to do afterwards.

'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

It's important for me to understand more about my swing and my game, no matter who I end up working with.

If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

There have been nights I've stayed up late thinking about, 'What's wrong with my swing? What do I need to fix?'