With Stream or Against Stream

With Stream or Against Stream

In matters of style, swim with the current, in matters of principle, stand like a rock.

Haters will see you walk on water and say it's because you can't swim.

He who wants to get to the source must swim against the current.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

Don't swim against the current. Stay in the river, become the river; and the river is already going to the sea. This is the great teaching.

...most men and women will yield to the strong currents sucking them into the seas of ruin. Only the strongest in mind and spirit will swim against that current.

Men have been taught that it is a virtue to agree with others.

But the creator is the man who disagrees. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to swim with the current. But the creator is the man who goes against the current. Men have been taught that it is a virtue to stand together. But the creator is the man who stands alone.

It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case.