It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.
Interpretation
It's always possible to pursue your dreams, regardless of age or circumstance.
Diana Nyad's quote emphasizes the belief that one should never give up on their dreams, no matter the obstacles or the passage of time. It serves as a powerful reminder that it's never too late to chase after one's aspirations and that persistence and determination can lead to achieving even the most ambitious goals.
In practice
In a motivational speech at a career development conference.
You have a dream and you have obstacles in front of you as we all do. None of us ever get through this life without heartache, without turmoil, and if you believe and you have faith and you can get knocked down and get back up again and you believe in perseverance as a great human quality, you find your way.
In swimming, especially training out in the ocean and open water, you got fogged-over goggles, you're stuck with your own thoughts - there's great benefits to that, deep thinking like that after many hours, but there's also tremendous loneliness. You burn out. You want to run, jump, ski, do anything. So at age 30, I was finished.
Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light.
I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.
I swam. We made it, our team, from the rocks of Cuba to the beach of Florida, in squeaky-clean, ethical fashion.
I grew up in Florida, so you start swimming at the age of 1, really. By 10, I was competitive swimming, and by 12, I had aspirations to be the best in the world.
There's nothing wrong with struggle. Anytime I look back at a difficult phase of my life and see what grew out of it - the creative survival tactics - I think that the good is way better than the bad.
No matter how loud the stadium is, once you're on that field and that offense walks up to the line, it's silent. You can only hear the guys on the field. It's amazing how much concentration you can have when it's required and how powerful your mind is to give it to you.
I don't know anything about luck, but that the harder I train, the luckier I get.
Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.
I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.
All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
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