Upstream Quotes

35 quotes by 33 authors

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… — Neil Armstrong
The Buddha described his teaching as "going against the stream." The unflinching light of mindful awareness reveals the extent to which we are tossed along… — Stephen Batchelor
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. — Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is… — Gautama Buddha
Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is like your nation,… — Michael Parfit
After a lifetime of swimming upstream, I am convinced that one of the real secrets to Wal-mart's phenomenal success has been that very tendency. — Sam Walton
Fear represents our need to hang on to the riverbank, to control outcomes, results, our lives; it swims upstream. Truth is about releasing that hold,… — Tom Shadyac
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. — Sam Walton
We donâ€™t have to wait until we move or change jobs to change our lives. Nor do we have to wait for large-scale, upstream change.… — Arianna Huffington
There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why… — Desmond Tutu
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… — John Breaux
When you come from your heart in the midst of your self and in your life, youâ€™ll be like a salmon turning and going upstream.… — John de Ruiter
Laws gain their authority from actual possession and custom: it is perilous to go back to their origins; laws, like our rivers, get greater and… — Michel de Montaigne
Marketers have to move upstream now. We have to stop being the last step in the process and start being the first step. — Seth Godin
It is well known that "problem avoidance" is an important part of problem solving. Instead of solving the problem you go upstream and alter the… — Edward de Bono
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. — W.C. Fields
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. — Loretta Lynn
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. — John Oates
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. — Laura Schlessinger
Independent will is our capacity to act. It gives us the power to transcend our paradigms, to swim upstream, to rewrite our scripts, to act… — Stephen Covey

Who Wrote These Upstream Quotes

33 authors contributed a total of 35 Upstream Quotes, led by these top contributors: