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Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. -- Sam Walton
Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do. -- John Oates
Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream. -- W. C. Fields
My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current. -- Laura Schlessinger
You ain't supposed to get salmon when they're swimming upstream to spawn. But if you're hungry, you do. -- Loretta Lynn
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
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
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 my life. -- Shane Carruth
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 future. I think that's more than enough to hope for. -- Shane Carruth
I grew up in a family in which no male upstream from me had ever finished high school, much less gone to college. But I was taught that even though there was nothing I could do about what was behind me, I could change everything about what was in front of me. My working poor parents told me that I could do better. -- Mike Huckabee
Always drink upstream from the herd. -- Will Rogers
Look upstream. Just simply turn around; have you no will? -- Annie Dillard
Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down. -- Ogden Nash
The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream. -- Nick Hexum
what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream. -- Sonia Sanchez
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you. -- Wendell Berry
I have always liked working "upstream" long before health problems hit the body. -- Christiane Northrup
When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency. -- Arthur Golden
Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics. -- Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.â? - Chinese proverb -- Alvin Toffler
Plenty of folks are so contrary that if they should fall into the river, they would insist upon floating upstream. -- Josh Billings
it's like swimming upstream. Or "¦ falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall. -- Rainbow Rowell
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
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
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
Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around. -- Oliver DeMille
Our calling is not only to pull people out of the river, but to go upstream to find out what or who is pushing them in. -- Jim Wallis
If life is a river, then pursuing Christ requires swimming upstream. When we stop swimming, or actively following Him, we automatically begin to be swept downstream. -- Francis Chan
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
Some people will just go with the flow of things and sway in life, while others will fight against the currents and go upstream to reach their destiny." -- Anthony Liccione
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? -- Jarod Kintz
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 they're falling in. -- Desmond Tutu
A pathetic shadow, torn between her envy and thrill of being seen with Masomma, sharing in the attention as a weed would, lapping up water meant for the lily upstream. -- Khaled Hosseini
As products of our highly competitive and specialized society, with all its ladders and ceilings, neat compartments, titles, and categories, to remain in an expanded state can feel like swimming upstream. -- Judith Hanson Lasater
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
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 truly called one who is bound upstream. -- Gautama Buddha
Everybody is talking about the behavior. Behaviors float downstream to us. We need to paddle upstream. The problems that are causing the behaviors, that's what's waiting for us. It's a crucial paradigm shift. -- Ross W. Greene
Government support is not only investing in upstream areas like basic research, but also in downstream areas like applied research and early-stage financing for the companies themselves. This means there are great risks. -- Mariana Mazzucato
You never stand beside the same river twice; you have to keep looking upstream. -- Donald Keough

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