The real purpose of running isn’t to win a race, it’s to test the limits of the human heart.
BILL BONNERIf you have a body, you are an athlete!
More Bill Bonner Quotes
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There is no bad weather, just soft runners.
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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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Harness the Power of Accelerated Failure – the faster you fail, the faster you succeed.
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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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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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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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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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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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God determines how fast you’re going to run; I can help only with the mechanics.
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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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People do not get what they want or what they expect from the markets; they get what they deserve.
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A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
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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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