If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
BILL BONNERA teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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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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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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And there are cultural norms and traditional prohibitions. But eventually, the norms and traditions wear off, like painkillers. And then, the pain of raw government begins again.
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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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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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.
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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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Only simple ideas can be held by large groups of people. Commonly held ideas are almost always dumbed down until they are practically lies… and often dangerous ones.
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A 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.
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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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