Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.
Always drink upstream from the herd.
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.
Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will?
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do.
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
Maida Rutledge: If this refrigerator gets any more fish in it, it will swim upstream and spawn all by itself.
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.
I'm swimming upstream. Fighting the tide while the happy dead drift past me to the pools of ignorance.
I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.
When I’m writing my own stuff, it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.
To be a futurist, in pursuit of improving reality, is not to have your face continually turned upstream, waiting for the future to come. To improve reality is to clearly see where you are, and then wonder how to make that better.
With God, all things are possible- including, dominating adulthood, swimming upstream for life, and living in light of eternity in a world that tells you all you can do is live for the moment.
I can honestly say, there was a moment when I was writing 'Upstream Color' where I fell so hard for what it was becoming that I couldn't think of anything else. I was absolutely secure in this story in the way I'm rarely secure about anything else in...
I needed to explain that Louisiana's coast accepts the drainage from two-thirds of the United States and, while the necessary levees constructed upstream have prevented floods, they have also contributed to problems downstream.
I network like a salmon in a bear costume. Why swim upstream when the honeybee has all the flowers? Is anything more romantic than roses on a grave?
'Upstream Color' in particular, it's got to infect culture at some level in order to have a life of its own. Then it'll be judged, and it'll either live or it won't by its own merit, and history will decide whether it's relevant however long into the...
If the bonus army conquered Washington the lawyer had a boat hidden in the Sacramento River, and he was going to row upstream for a few months and then come back “because they always needed lawyers after a revolution to straighten out all the legal...
I found my mind wandering at games; loved boxing and was good at it; and in summer, having chosen rowing instead of cricket, lay peacefully by the Stour, well upstream of the rhythmic creaking and the exhortation, reading and Gibbon and gossiping wit...
