No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing.
Business is like a man rowing a boat upstream. He has no choice he must go ahead or he will go back.
Take a look at your natural river. What are you? Stop playing games with yourself. Where's your river going? Are you riding with it? Or are you rowing against it? Don't you see that there is no effort if you're riding with your river?
If you row 3,000 strokes a day for 15 years you end up on autopilot. But when you're learning a new sport, you're part of a learning culture, your brain and body are more open to change. We can take that attitude back with us into the rowing.
Be not afraid of rowing slowly. Be afraid of standing still.
For me and for John, it really kind of opened the minds of people from all over world to open their boathouses to people who are blind, ... I've gained so much (from rowing), I'd love to see people all over the world get the same pleasure and opportunity I had.
Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir, Rowing home to haven in sunny Palestine, With a cargo of ivory, And apes and peacocks, Sandalwood, cedarwood, and sweet white wine.
It was like falling off a building and suddenly, bang, you hit the bottom. The first time it happened was on an ordinary day at home. I was taking down some curtains. I took one step, turned around, took another step and then I fell and hit my head hard on the rowing machine.
Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.
He'd row to shore every 2-3 hours to rest for a short stretch. That's when his legs would nearly give out on him. But once he got the blood flowing again, he was back on the river, rowing as hard as ever.
I've had problems all my life, big problems. God's been on my shoulder all of my life and I have no real conviction for why some people have trouble on one shoulder and God on the other and why some people don't, but I'm just one of those people, ... The boss has always been there and if I keep rowing, I come out on the other end.
I've had spectacular highs in my life ... And I've had terrible lows, but the boss has always been there, and if I keep rowing, I come out the other end.
He has been the leader, and he has had the focus and everyone rowing the boat in the same direction. To change would be difficult, especially with two board members leaving and half the cabinet retiring.
I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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