“I’m not a rule-breaker by nature. But there are times when you need to untangle yourself from red tape. Because the truth is, if you wait for permission, some things will simply never happen.”

p 94, referencing his swim across Sydney Harbour (2006)
21 Yaks And A Speedo (2013)

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Kris Carr (1971) American actress and filmmaker

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“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”

Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America

“When you grow up--and from the look of things, you have awhile--but you learn things never go back to normal simply because everyone's sorry. Sorry is ridiculous.”

Marisha Pessl Special Topics in Calamity Physics

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“You know you're going to get burned from time to time. It's just part of the game. So when it happens you have to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and forget about it because they're about to snap the ball again.”

Michael Connelly book The Fifth Witness

Source: The Fifth Witness

“Things happen to you they happen. They dont ask first. They dont require your permission.”

Cormac McCarthy book No Country for Old Men

Source: No Country for Old Men

“There are times when you don't know yourself. There are times when you don't want to know yourself. There are times when you want to be what you have never allowed yourself to be before.”

Aidan Chambers (1934) British children's writer

Source: This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn

“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: The Dead Man in Indian Creek

“Like sometimes when a coach is behind you, they don’t really know how you feel. It’s hard for me to tell him, because I’m also thinking. If the coach and I think the same thing, that’s good, but sometimes it doesn’t happen. Then do you listen to the coach, or do you listen to yourself?”

Beiwen Zhang (1990) badminton player

"Beiwen Zhang – Adapting To Every Challenge" in Badminton Pan America http://www.badmintonpanam.org/beiwen-zhang-adapting-to-every-challenge/ (15 December 2020)

“Our prayer must be, “Father, I’m waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.””

James MacDonald (1960) American pastor

Source: Always True (Moody, 2011), p. 85

“I'm sorry about the phone call; and waking you.
I know that it is late,
But thank you for talking, because I needed to.
Some things just can't wait.”

Conor Oberst (1980) American musician

Happy Birthday To Me (Feb 15)
Noise Floor (Rarities: 1998-2005) (2006)

“I’m not a rule-breaker by nature. But there are times when you need to untangle yourself from red tape. Because the truth is, if you wait for permission, some things will simply never happen.”

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