Bill Bowerman Quotes

Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

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• One of the most sacred purposes for which the scriptures were written was to make it possible for all to know Christ. The scriptures teach and testify of Jesus Christ. They teach us much that we need to know and to do to return to the presence of the Savior.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Know
  • Jesus
  • Teach

• To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • People
  • You
  • Face

• As much as I love to shop online, I also love walking the streets on a beautiful day and seeing what finds I can discover in a small shop or vintage store.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Beautiful
  • Streets
  • Store

• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• The field of 'economics and organization' is still young and needs support. I have been a chaired professor much of my academic life and know that such chairs are important for recruiting and retaining faculty.

  

  Oliver E. Williamson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Support

• You shouldn't try to manufacture progress.

  

  Sam Altman
  • You
  • Progress
  • Try

• I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • My Life

• What is lost in the good or excellent translation is precisely the best.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Good
  • Lost
  • Best

• I was born and grew up in Fitzgerald, way down in south Georgia. It was a mill town and my family ran the cotton mill. My grandfather was mayor many times and my family felt deeply rooted to that spot.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • Up
  • Family
  • Down

• In Valdosta, Ga., during a mini-tour event, a player named James Black bet me $20 he could put five golf balls in his mouth and then close his mouth all the way. I tried it but could get only two in there.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Black
  • Me
  • Player

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Long
  • Man
  • Legs

• With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • People
  • Age
  • Hug

• Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Women
  • Myself
  • Woman

• Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Sorry
  • Still
  • Dialectical

• Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Often
  • Substance
  • Flash

• I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Small
  • Airplane
  • Village

• Back in 1993, I was studying in Delhi, and I had a girlfriend. I had never touched a girl before that in my entire life. One day, I decided to go out with her to a garden. We were sitting beside each other, and I just glanced around to see if anyone was looking at us, and I put my hand over hers. I thought love started in this way.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Love
  • Girl

• My morning rituals are typical. I wake up yearning for a few extra moments of rest. I express gratitude to a higher power for the breath in my body and the blessings in my life. I shower. I dress. I eat breakfast. I exchange laughter and words with my beloveds, embracing each other as we say our daily goodbyes.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Up
  • Power

• For me, a show's a show. I try to put on the best show I can for whatever audience or time slot I get.

  

  Brantley Gilbert
  • Time

• And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don't, it's just real hard to get through the day, and I'll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.

  

  Delta Burke
  • Work
  • Real

• Because if you weren't born white, you were forced to see differences; or if you weren't born what they called normal, or if you got injured, then you were left to explore the world of the different.

  

  Leslie Marmon Silko
  • World
  • Different
  • Explore

• A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Life
  • Person
  • Breathe

• Now to explore the limits of the one competitor above everyone else you've always loved to face: Steve Prefontaine.

  

  Bill Bowerman
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