"Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed."

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Source : John Gierach (1989). “Fly Fishing Small Streams”, p.31, Stackpole Books

John Gierach

#Trout Quotes #Determined Quotes #Fisherman Quotes

“I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.”
“One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.”

Source : "Branford Marsalis: It's All About The Band". Interview with Russ Musto, www.allaboutjazz.com. January 12, 2005.
“The thing we've learned from the last 20 years of counterterrorism is the significant value you get from removing leadership from the battlefield in degrading the organization.”

Source : Source: www.politico.com
“Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell.”
“God will never disappoint usâ€¦ If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as we can, we certainly will not submit to His discipline. â€¦To the unbeliever the fact of suffering only convinces him that God is not to be trusted, does not love us. To the believer, the opposite is true.”
“I'm an east coaster, you know, I'm brought up in Toronto where it's very much, like, kind of a miniature New York in that there's a subway and you're surrounded by people a lot and, you know, you bump into people and you have interactions and you communicate and la la la.”

Source : "Royal Pains Q&A: Paulo Costanzo". The Morning Call Interview, www.mcall.com. May 20, 2009.
“The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.”
“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading: Henny Youngman. He was a wise man who invented beer”

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