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Jim Taylor: Running
Focus on what it’s like to be outdoors, to feeling your body move, to the relationships you may have built through running. These are experiences that can be reproduced with every run—you don’t need a good finish time to produce them. By shifting the focus from results to running itself you’ll feel empowered.
Jim Taylor, Ph.D., a sports psychologist and author of Prime Sport: Triumph of the Athlete Mind, The Bliss List, Runner’s World.com
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Patricia Sun: Heaven and hell
“There is only one thing keeping us from having heaven on earth: we can’t believe it! Why? Because we don’t want to be wrong – so we’ll be right and make it hell! ”
––Patricia SunHeaven and Hell (Vangelis album) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Excellence and its appreciation
Thackeray (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it. ”
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William Penn: Right is right
- William Penn Deutsch: William Penn († 1718) 日本語: ウィリアム・ペン（William Penn） (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. ”
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Competition and cooperation
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1933. Lietuvių: Franklinas Delanas Ruzveltas (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off. ”
—Franklin D Roosevelt
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Preparedness
Ovid by Anton von Werner. "Bibliothek des allgemeinen und praktischen Wissens. Bd. 5" (1905), Abriß der Weltliteratur, Seite 51 (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“He who is not prepared today will be less so tomorrow.”
—Ovid
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Karl Kraus: Being human
“When a man is treated like a beast, he says, ‘After all, I’m human.’ When he behaves like a beast, he says ‘After all, I’m only human.’ ”
Karl Kraus
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Road to perdition
Road to Perdition (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
“The safest road to hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. ”
—C S Lewis
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Antoine de Saint Exupéry: Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
– Antoine de Saint Exupéry
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Sigmund Freud: Excremental
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The excremental is all too intimately and inseparably bound up with the sexual: the position of the genitals—inter urinas et faeces—remains the decisive and unchangeable factor. One might say here, varying a well-known saying of the great Napoleon: “Anatomy is destiny.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, Standard Edition, vol. 11, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1957). On the Universal Tendency to Debasement in the Sphere of Love, sect. 3 (1912).
Napoleon had said, “Politics is destiny” (as reported by German poet Goethe in conversation with him in 1808).
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Frederick Saunders: Pride
Pride, like laudanum and other poisonous medicines, is beneficial in small, though injurious in large, quantities. No man who is not pleased with himself, even in a personal sense, can please others. -Frederick Saunders, librarian and essayist (1807-1902)
Arthur Frederick Saunders (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
