Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
BILL BONNERI think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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The world, then, no longer resembles the one that gave rise to the original insight. Soon, a person’s situation is so at odds with the world as it really is that a crisis develops, and he or she must seek a new metaphor for explanation and guidance.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.
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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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I think people can handle 150 to 200 miles a week. But something has to give somewhere. If he’s a student, how’s he going to study? He may be at the age of chasing and courtship, and that’s an important form of sport and recreation, too.
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The entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn’t have on things he doesn’t need — we’re done for.
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I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
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So it’s a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what’s good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
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The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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Several of my critics have said, ‘Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.’ They’re partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? ‘Don’t overcoach.’
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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Once vast numbers of people have come to believe the lie, they adjust their own behavior to bring themselves into sync with it, and thereby change the world itself.
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The economic freedom that made the U.S. economy the leader of the world has given way toa rigged, controlled, and regulated economy.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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