Surfing Quotes

• Surfing the Internet every day has become a habit for many leaders and officials, including myself.

  

  Li Yuanchao
  • Habit
  • Surfing

• I had plenty of invites and chances to party when I just started on tour, but I knew partying would prevent me from achieving my surfing potential.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Party
  • Surfing

• There was a summer during which the whole South Shore of Oahu, you could see the bleached coral almost across all of the surfing spots. And so it's gone from an issue that only environmentalists cared about to an issue that almost everybody in the state of Hawaii cares about, because it's really affecting our quality of life.

  

  Brian Schatz
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Summer

• Everybody has got their vibes - it could be mountain biking, it could be hiking, but for me, it's surfing and music. There's a lot of different things, but I think love gives us peace one way or another, and a calming effect on our soul, so I don't know exactly what love is to me, but I know I try my best to surround myself with that.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Music
  • Different
  • Soul

• It's the way surfing is - you grow up surfing together, and then you're thrown into a heat at Pipe or a world title bout against one another.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Up
  • World
  • Together

• When we first moved to California from Las Vegas, we got into surfing. We figured we should do something to get in shape, but we hate working out. Surfing is definitely a work out.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Work
  • Hate
  • California

• If employees need to stay late in order to curry favor with the boss, what motivation do they have to get work done during normal business hours? After all, they can put in the requisite 'face time' whether they are surfing the Internet or analyzing customer data.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Time
  • Work
  • Done

• I'm a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They're great for you limber-wise, they're great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

  

  Matthew McConaughey
  • Great
  • Health
  • Sports

• I have to be careful with surfing. It's still an addiction to me. It's all I want to do, and that's the big dilemma I have with it.

  

  Chris Carter
  • Addiction
  • Surfing

• I've had the same core group of friends that I've always had. We're surfing, so that definitely keeps you grounded.

  

  Aaron Bruno
  • Friends
  • Surfing

• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Song
  • Attention
  • Style

• I love Hawaii. I really enjoy surfing in Oahu, and Waianae is such a great area. And Maui - I like Maui a lot, too.

  

  Troy Polamalu
  • Enjoy
  • Areas
  • Hawaii

• Surfing makes me happy, so that's just what I'm going to keep doing.

  

  Alana Blanchard
  • Happy
  • Surfing

• Everything we do in the digital realm - from surfing the Web to sending an e-mail to conducting a credit card transaction to, yes, making a phone call - creates a data trail. And if that trail exists, chances are someone is using it - or will be soon enough.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • Surfing

• As soon as I get bored, I start missing the kids, so I don't let myself get bored. I just go surfing.

  

  Joel Parkinson
  • Kids
  • Missing
  • Bored

• To lose your everyday life of surfing and being creative on waves, enjoying the ocean - that's scary to me. It was essential to at least try surfing again and get out there and see how it went.

  

  Bethany Hamilton
  • Life
  • Everyday
  • Ocean

• On Saturday mornings, because I'm surfing a lot for the part in 'John From Cincinnati,' I'll get up about 5:30 A.M .and go to Malibu and surf. There's something very therapeutic and healing about it.

  

  Austin Nichols
  • Up
  • Healing
  • Saturday

• I've been surfing since I was a kid.

  

  Luke Hemsworth
  • Surfing

• I've tried crowd surfing but the radiating light that surrounds me kept sending me floating into the heavens. Goddamn I'm beautiful

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Beautiful
  • Heaven
  • Surround

• My days could be described as an ever changing palette of blues, greens, browns, and golds. Mostly because of surfing and garden-gazing. On tour, the colors are desaturated by florescent lights and dull grey carpets.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Gold
  • Garden
  • Carpet

• I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. I'd go out with a board under my arm and think, 'I can't do that in Cranhill.'

  

  Billy Boyd
  • Beach
  • Surfing

• And where I grew up in Australia, surfing was a part of culture.

  

  Marc Newson
  • Up
  • Culture
  • Surfing

• It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.

  

  Robert Pozen
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Reading

• Charting is a little like surfing. You dont have to know a lot about the physics of tides, resonance, and fluid dynamics in order to catch a good wave. You just have to be able to sense when its happening and then have the drive to act at the right time.

  

  Ed Seykota
  • Able
  • Physics
  • Dynamics

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