The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNEROnly 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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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There’s no such thing as bad weather, just soft people.
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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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To bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete* in the world.
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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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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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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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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.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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You don’t get what you want from investing, you get what you deserve.
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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