Fitness - Focus - Form.

When eight row together with swing the boat becomes the ninth rower.

The hardest part of rowing properly: Eyes and Minds in The Boat!

The concentration of all seven behind the stroke should be so strong that you know by feel when that stroke has varied his style or rating without the cox announcing it.

Still loving the sport; still working on the focus.

Let the boat work - and not me!

Follow the stroke - or be the stroke that the rest can follow.

Why eye for an eye, when we can have smile for a smile ?

We hope you have found challenge in your path this morning.” -- Laniel, Abbot of Bilkar the Furred

To business that we love we rise betime And go to it with delight.

I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.

five severed fingers do not make a hand

In the consciousness of the end is the limitation of the moment.

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)

Ignore your previous experience and go into the moment. Be Here Now. See what there is to work with right now in creating yourself anew. Life is an ongoing, never-ending process of re-creation.

The trick is not to make eye contact. They don't charge if you don't make eye contact.

It is important not to confuse freedom with mere permissiveness