Marc Parent famous quotes

The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.
-- Marc Parent

#Running #Inspire #Firsts

I've never been in a ditch so low that a run wouldn't pop me out of it.
-- Marc Parent

#Running #Lows #Pops

Running is a kind of truth serum. It brutally strips away everything you put on and leaves you with only yourself.
-- Marc Parent

#Running #Kind

In the end, it's not what we keep our children from that will save them. It's what we put into them in the first place.
-- Marc Parent

#Children #Firsts #Ends

Committing to a level you'll never attain may sound ridiculous, and it is. It's a form of insanity -- something also known as life. Everything moves forward or dies. Whether or not you actually move forward is irrelevant. What matters is that you never stop trying.
-- Marc Parent

#Moving #What Matters #Insanity

What matters is that you never stop trying.
-- Marc Parent

#What Matters #Trying #Matter

If January is the month of change, February is the month of lasting change. January is for dreamers... February is for doers -
-- Marc Parent

#Dreamer #Doers #Months

You don't need anything but your own two legs to run. You don't even need shoes, according to some people.
-- Marc Parent

#Running #Shoes #Two

If you stick with running, the day will come when you'll want to live forever.
-- Marc Parent

#Running #Forever #Want

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going, and it said to itself, “There is no hurry. We shall get there some day.” But all the little streams higher up in the Forest went this way and that, quickly, eagerly, having so much to find out before it was too late.

I met a keen observer who gave me a tip: 'If you run across a restaurant where you often see priests eating with priests, or sporting girls with sporting girls, you may be confident that it is good. Those are two classes of people who like to eat well and get their money's worth.'

The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone ('Stuck in Love') with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep -- not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.

Rogue Squadron doesn't run. Unless we really, really have to.

I really hate it when I can’t score runs from a ball.

He wasn't what sent me running. He was what had made me want to stay.

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

This is the power of gathering: it inspires us, delightfully, to be more hopeful, more joyful, more thoughtful: in a word, more alive.

If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.