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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I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.
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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 think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
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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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Some of life's best lessons are learned at the worst times.
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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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In 'Star Wars: Episode II,' when Jango Fett is chasing Obi Wan Kenobi through an asteroid field, they needed a big asteroid to shatter into a million pieces, and I had to figure out how to do the fracturing, write the code, and show an artist how to use it.
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I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.'
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Sometimes when you get on a new movie you kind of how to figure out the way other people work and it can be like being the new kid in high school where you're just trying to find out where your place is on the movie or on the set.
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It wasn't too pretty in Florida, but it was spring training and you're just trying to work on your stuff. You come to this part of the season and now you have to execute. It's what I did. I just threw it where it needed to be.
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I always thought of the zombies as being about revolution, one generation consuming the next.
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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.
