Amby Burfoot Quotes
I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
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I'm doing a lot of things in Africa. I've formed a company with two friends of mine called Made In Africa and we are doing a lot of important things across the continent.
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The secret of doing well on TV is to understand that it's not too important. A lot of people watching doesn't change anything.
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It's important to have good tunes, but words are the thing for me.
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Everyone knows that metaphors are important, yet we have no idea why.
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The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
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My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
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Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.
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Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and you're just sitting still?
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It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harshly critical of my own work in order to learn and tell better stories.
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Exercise is more important than diet for me because it's a twofer. It keeps me in good physical shape, and it relieves stress. And when you're a representative of the public, there's never a shortage of things to do.
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You want to be excited about what you're doing. So whenever I get tired, I think, 'Would ten-year-old Adam be pretty stoked on what I'm doing and what's happening?' So I just live my life as if I'm using my ten-year-old brain.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.
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No one knows quite the reason, but surgically severing the corpus callosum can reduce the rate and intensity of seizures. So in the early 1960s, a few patients with severe epilepsy had their corpus callosums cut, turning them into split-brain people.
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I also thank Bill McKibben and his 350.org colleagues for the most important work in the world, and the most unending.
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The most important persuasion tool you have in your entire arsenal is integrity.
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Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
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My approach to the job can be summed up pretty simply - I never viewed politics as my career. Important, yes, worthy of intense commitment, of course - but it was not my whole life. … I saw politics as a way to make a contribution and satisfy my penchant for public policy, but not as something I couldn't live without.
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You borrow my brain for 5 seconds, and just be like 'Dude, can't handle it, unplug this bastard', because it fires in a way that is, I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
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I think risk is important. I don't care if it's a great financial risk or a physical risk. You only get out of something what you put into it and the fact that you are willing to risk something means that you are going to get a lot more out of it.
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Thought is a force - a manifestation of energy - having a magnet-like power of attraction.
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Twitter is almost novelistic.
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To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past. Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future.
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I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.
