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Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

— Laura Donnelly

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

— Ted Hughes

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

— Mariano Rivera

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

— John Buchan

Probably fishing is my first passion.

— Luke Bryan

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

— Rex Hunt

I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

— Rafael Nadal

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

— Deion Sanders

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

— Anthony Doerr

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

— Dave Barry

✗Opposing Perspectives

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

— Herbert Hoover