The 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 BONNERSo 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.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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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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If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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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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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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If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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Yes, there are constraints on the way the insiders use their power. There are ‘checks and balances,’ built into the constitution, for example.
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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.
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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery – and there’s not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
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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 US is headed for ruin and revolution. The revolution will almost certainly be put down, violently. But the ruin cannot be stopped.
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