Mind Over Water Quotes

“Social climbers strive to be aristocrats but their efforts prove them no such thing. Aristocrats do not strive; they have already arrived. Swing is a state of arrival.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

“If we go beyond what we once thought was our perimeter, then all limits are open to question.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing

“Recall the pure joy of riding on a backyard swing: and easy cycle of motion, the momentum coming from the swing itself. Then swing carries us; we do not force it. We pump our legs to drive our arc higher, but gravity does most of the work. We are not so much swinging as being swung.”
― Craig Lambert, Mind Over Water: Lessons on Life from the Art of Rowing