Upstream Quotes

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. (Neil Armstrong)

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Sam Walton

Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

W. C. Fields

Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream.

Josh Billings

Always drink upstream from the herd.

Will Rogers

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

The salmon swimming upstream to spawn may be wily in a hundred ways, but she cannot even contemplate the prospect of abandoning her reproductive project and deciding instead to live out her days studying coastal geography or trying to learn Portuguese. The creation of a panoply of new standpoints is, to my mind, the most striking product of the euprimatic revolution.

Daniel Dennett

My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.

Laura Schlessinger

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.

John Breaux

At present [around 1960-1970] I make objects (whether a type-writer, wheelbarrow, bed or fishingboat..) very 'hourloupés' [like his painting: Courre Merlan (Whiting Chase), 1964. What I mean is that I am swimming upstream against the 'l'Hourloupe' current. I am approaching it from the opposite direction: instead of starting out with indeterminate lines that eventually give me a wheelbarrow, I start out with the idea of making a wheelbarrow and then add my indeterminate lines. In effect what I am doing is making the current run simultaneously in both directions at the same time.

Jean Dubuffet

You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. (Loretta Lynn)

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.” - Chinese proverb.

Alvin Toffler

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 based on principle rather than reacting based on emotion or circumstance.

Stephen Covey

When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden

Our salmon sandwiches are so good you'll want to swim upstream to our kitchen and spawn. But please don't.

Scott Adams

Oh, things are frequently what they seem, And this is wisdom's crown: Only the game fish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down.

Ogden Nash

Being an actor, you always feel like you're swimming upstream. People are going, "No, they don't like you. They don't like the way you look. They don't like how old you are."

Bradley Whitford

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

David Nicholls

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

Wendell Berry

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

John Oates

The style of music that we're playing, this progressive metal style, has always been an upstream battle for us. We don't usually get a lot of commercial exposure. (John Petrucci)

Gene Ray: Another thing, did you know your father is a fish? Interviewer: No, I did not know my... [laughter] Gene Ray: You know how salmon swim upstream, the male fertilizes the female eggs laid in the water? Interviewer: Yes. Gene Ray: The sperm fish swims upstream just like the salmon fertilizes female eggs laid in the water.

Gene Ray

Some fish love to swim upstream. Some people love to overcome challenges.

Amit Ray

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 system so that the problem does not occur in the first place.

Edward de Bono