A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils.
BILL BONNERI 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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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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A man on his owns knows that he is best advised to leave his dumbbell neighbors alone. But let him join a political party, and he fantasizes that he has the right and the power to tell everyone on the block what to do.
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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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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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If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.
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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 you look carefully, almost all Old Money secrets can be traced to a single source: a longer-term outlook.
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Everything you need is already inside.
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The athlete makes himself, the coach doesn’t make the athlete.
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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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If someone says, ‘Hey, I ran 100 miles this week. How far did you run?’ ignore him! What the hell difference does it make?…. The magic is in the man, not the 100 miles.
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Don’t give anything away. Never make it easy for the guys you are trying to beat.
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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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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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