Doc Paskowitz Quotes

#1. There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#2. Love really makes the world go round, but sex makes love go round.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#3. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#4. Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.

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#5. The easiest way to obtain an updated version of a candidate's CV is via SocialMedia

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#6. A real man is capable of controlling himself before he controls his children.

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#7. I'm the man that'll make your nights shine bright like day light.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#8. I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

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#9. When I kept surfing, surfing kept me.

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#10. I understand that the average person can't imagine damaging their looks in any way if it could be avoided. But I don't value my physical beauty to the point where I would not do something I truly enjoy because I'm afraid of potentially hurting something superficial.

Laila Ali

#11. I love to be called Doc.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#12. All Church power arises from the indwelling of the Spirit; therefore those in whom the Spirit dwells are the seat of Church power. But the Spirit dwells in the whole Church, and therefore the whole Church is the seat of Church power.

Charles Hodge

#13. The greatest thing in life is health.

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#14. It is sometimes wise to forget who we are.

Publilius Syrus

#15. Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

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#16. My favorite toy or game has been the ocean. My real passion is for saltwater.

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#17. Some of the most profound realizations that I came to about health did not derive from medicine, but derived from surfing.

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#18. Once I learned to swim, I learned that there were waves.

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#19. Health is survival. But survival with style and class.

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#20. It's ironic, in a way. I've spent a lifetime controlling the emotions of others. Now I'm so afraid, I can't even function.

Brandon Sanderson

#21. Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

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#22. Here even the various mind-pleasing blossoming flowers, and attractive shining supreme golden houses, have no inherently existent maker at all. They are set up through the power of thought. Through the power of conceptuality the world is established

Gautama Buddha

#23. God loves happy people.

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#24. I'm one of the few dumb Jewish doctors.

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#25. Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

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#26. I think it is easy to be a doctor. There are a hell of a lot more doctors than there are guys riding big Pipeline.

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#27. The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

#28. And your people tried to kill my best friend, so you'll forgive me if I'm not overly keen on learning the secret handshake."
She shook her head sadly. "You should be going on dates and hanging out at the mall. Not wearing stakes on your belt."
I shrugged one shoulder. "The mall sucks.

Alyxandra Harvey

#29. I'm like Robin Hood. I rob the rich to make these projects come alive ... not really rob. It's done with a smile.

Imelda Marcos

#30. Though either choice was good, one was truer to myself ... Ultimately, I reflected on Geothe's invocation to 'make a commitment and the forces of the universe will conspire to make it happen' and chose the uncharted path.

Jacqueline Novogratz

#31. Everything that mattered, I learned from surfing.

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#32. It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.

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