Amby Burfoot Quotes
As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.
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SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you've learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you've forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you're about to forget.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.
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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.
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The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
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You never walk out of the gym and say, 'I shouldn't have gone.'
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It's always discouraging when you don't have things go your way. They are frustrated just like the rest of us.
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I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.
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What guides us is children's response, their joy in learning to dance, to sing, to live together. It should be a guide to the whole world.
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When you get hard work you get success, and we put a lot of years into it.
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My biggest disappointment is that once I'm finished working on the characters, I really do expect to see them in the flesh one day.
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Actually, I never really thought I would be a model. I never knew a lot about fashion and magazines, and I never paid attention to it. I was a young girl, though.
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Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country.
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There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.
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Our hearts are being stretched to span the violence and the suffering in our lives and world, and at the same time we are also witness to so much magnificence and brilliance. We are a species that has produced nuclear weapons, and also one that has developed profound insight into the nature of life itself.
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We are running out of time. We need a strategy to win in Iraq or an exit strategy to leave.
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.
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Boy, if Garth Ennis had created a religion, I would sure like to be a part of that. It just makes sense, the way he tackles things in it. It's really heavy stuff and it's incredibly well written.
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As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.
