Both 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 BONNERThere is no bad weather, just soft runners.
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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I 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.
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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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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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Everything you need is already inside.
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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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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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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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Victory is in having done your best. If you’ve done your best, you’ve won.
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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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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.
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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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None of the problems that caused the crises in Europe and America have been resolved. They have been delayed and expanded by more debt and more money printing and will lead to more and worse crises.
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