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.
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.
BILL BONNERPeople are upset. They know something is wrong. But they don’t know what. The real explanation is too complicated. They won’t sit still for it. So, they look for scapegoats – the rich…the banks…the Chinese.
BILL BONNERThe US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
BILL BONNERThe idea that the harder you work, the better you’re going to be is just garbage. The greatest improvement is made by the man or woman who works most intelligently.
BILL BONNERThere is no bad weather, just soft runners.
BILL BONNERBoth the liberal and the conservative are in agreement: it is all very well to let the people alone, but only if they do what you want them to do.
BILL BONNERHarness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
BILL BONNERPeople do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
BILL BONNERThe athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
BILL BONNERNow it is done by the central bankers and Treasury Secretaries themselves. They don’t apologize for it. They don’t hang their heads and contemplate blowing their brains out. Instead, they’re proud of it… announcing that they ‘saved civilization,’ or some such claptrap.
BILL BONNERA man’s wealth can…also be measured by what he doesn’t have and doesn’t want. When he wants little, he is a rich man.
BILL BONNERI hope the competition will resume, and if it does, you must not think that running or throwing or jumping is frivelous. The games were once your fellow Olympians answer to war – competition, not conquest. Now, they must be your answer.
BILL BONNERNorman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings…pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their own lives.
BILL BONNEROnce 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.
BILL BONNERIf at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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