A Quote by Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

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Everything Learned Mattered Surfing

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Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz
American - Surfer
March 3, 1921 - November 10, 2014

Surfing frees everything up. It's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress free, and that's what surfing is all about.

Rell Sunn

It was like everyone suddenly knew what mattered. Money didn't matter. Politics didn't matter. Tabloid news didn't matter. No-compassion mattered. Calm mattered. Respect mattered. Did it really take something of this magnitude to make us realize this?

David Levithan

There's a much bigger picture beyond surfing, its part of an ocean culture. Everything comes back to Mother Nature. Surfing is a way of connecting, and saying thanks.

Tristan Prettyman

I never really grew up being political or Labour. It was just a realisation that where you were born mattered. That how you spoke mattered... who you knew mattered.

Jo Cox

I've been asked to do surfing movies over the years and offered several opportunities. I just felt that if I were to do one, I'd have to do the perfect surfing movie. And I don't know if that exists because surfing is such a personal thing.

Chris Carter

Nothing mattered much. Nothing much mattered. And the less it mattered the less it mattered. It was never important enough. Because Worse Things had happened. In the country that she came from poised forever between the terror of war and the horror of peace Worse Things kept happening

Arundhati Roy

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

Gene Tierney

Surfing frees everything up, it's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress-free, and that's what surfing is all about. It's something you do in your sleep, with your eyes closed; it's something you'll constantly embrace and be passionate about, and whatever it takes, you're gonna do it, because nothing else in the world can give you that kind of self-esteem.

Rell Sunn

My first encounter with yoga was in 1969 with my older brother Doug. I was thirteen years old, and he was eighteen. He'd learned about yoga in California on a surfing trip, and when he came back to Houston, Texas, he introduced me to this new stuff he'd learned. I'll always be grateful for that positive influence at an early age.

David F. Swensen

Only our memories allow that some people ever existed. That they mattered, or mattered too much.

Joe R. Lansdale

I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Bethany Hamilton

I don't know how long I'll be competing, but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

Bethany Hamilton

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Gerry Lopez

The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.