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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

Bill Bonner

God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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Helping Mechanic Running
If you have a body, you are an athlete!
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Athlete Body Motivational
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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People Real Scapegoats Upset
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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Art Careers Experience Real Rock
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change.
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Running Smart Teacher
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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Forget Impossibility Recovery
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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Athlete Giving Running
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.
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Civilization Consumer Done Needs
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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Adversity Men Running Themselves
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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Running Sports Thinking
Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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Giving Guy Trying
A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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Smart Teacher Teaching
If at the end of a race you know yourself that you have done your best, you’re a winner.
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Done End Race Winner
Everything you need is already inside.
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Gym Motivational Running Sports
Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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Failing Harness Succeed
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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Garbage Ideas Men

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

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