“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.”

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.

People 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.

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.

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.

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.’

Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.

There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.

I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They’re never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.

Now 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.

You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.

God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.

Neither limits nor adversity are what ruin men. Under pressure, they handle themselves pretty well. It’s the lack of limits they can’t handle. That’s when they run amok. So, if you really want to see what a man is made of let him think he can get away with something.

Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.

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.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.

To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.

I’m 23 but I got a brain like I’m 32 man, switched the numbers around.

I would love to do Broadway. I dont think theres anything more amazing than theater.

But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.

My number one beauty secret is to stay true to yourself and figure out what works best for your body.

I believe that a great number of people are going to die and go to hell because they’re counting on their religiosity in the church instead of their relationship with Jesus to get them to heaven.

The second technique was the ever popular chimney fire and number three had to be the drunken cigarette drop on the carpet.

I look at age as just being a number. In my mind my age is still 28 and I think I have to remember how old I am.

I know that people have their own opinions and they look at what the norm is for people.