Hal Higdon Quotes

Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

Hal Higdon

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• The problem with writing a monthly book is that you're going through your work like a man running for a bus, red-faced and out of breath. There isn't time for reflection or critical self-examination.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Time
  • Work
  • Writing

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• A monopoly is like running on firm ground. Nothing compels you to move, but if you do, you move forward. The faster you run, the more scenery you see - so you have some incentive to run fast.

  

  Raghuram Rajan
  • Running
  • Forward
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• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Color

• There's always been that theory that if a candidate can't run a decent campaign, he probably can't run a decent presidency. That might be true, although sadly I must admit that running a brilliant campaign does not translate into running a brilliant White House.

  

  Gail Collins
  • True
  • House
  • Running

• California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Important
  • Strong
  • Running

• I'm sick of running away from things.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Running
  • Sick
  • Away

• I never really hated any particular sport but out of all the sports, I used to prefer the team games to running and sprinting and those types of things.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Team
  • Running
  • Never

• Compared to running apps on a smartphone or, more aptly, an iPad, the app experience on the Samsung Chromebook Plus is distinctly subpar.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Experience
  • Running
  • More

• I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Running
  • Paint
  • Drive

• To wash dishes is not the same as a guy running a numerically-controlled machine. That guy running a numerically-controlled machine is going to get a higher level of pay because his training is higher, and he should get a higher level of pay.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Guy
  • Running
  • Training

• Running is my time for myself. I'm like, 'I'm going for a run!' and my husband knows I'm out of there.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Time
  • Running
  • Myself

• It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Purpose
  • Opinion
  • Attitude

• You used to get people writing in to the Liverpool Echo saying, ‘Who is this Martian walking round town?’ I used to get battered. Going out for lunch was like running the gauntlet.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • People
  • Writing
  • Running

• The Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, so while you talk about me, someone else is judging you.

  

  Bob Marley
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

  

  Scott Stapp
  • God
  • Heart
  • Home

• A lot of people talk about running for office, but what are you going to do when you get there? It's about service - and there aren't enough hours in the day.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People
  • Running
  • Service

• Approaches to determining stock values vary, but fundamentally, each company judging itself undervalued is saying that its future stream of earnings justifies a higher price than the stock market is willing to accord it.

  

  Carol Loomis
  • Future
  • Judging
  • Stock

• In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.

  

  George Washington
  • Strong
  • Running
  • Party

• In 2010, one in four Americans got the news from Fox News.

  

  Jill Lepore

• Stats are for losers. They relish in them.

  

  Jerry Jones

• Some runners judge performance by whether they won or lost. Others define success or failure by how fast they ran. Only you can judge your performance. Avoid letting others sit in judgment of you.

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Running
  • Judging
  • Judgment