Jim Fixx famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Set aside a time solely for running. Running is more fun if you don't have to rush through it.
-- Jim Fixx

#Running #Fun
Play not only keeps us young but also maintains our perspective about the relative seriousness of things. Running is play, for even if we try hard to do well at it, it is a relief from everyday cares.
-- Jim Fixx

#Running #Play #Perspective
Is beer good for runners? Sure...if it's the other guy drinking it.
-- Jim Fixx

#Drinking #Beer #Guy
It is not something I must do but something I want to do....
-- Jim Fixx

#Inspirational #Want
When you realise that you possess within your self everything you need to promote your own success, the feeling is one of empowerment.
-- Jim Fixx

#Self #Feelings #Empowerment
Much of my good fortune was a matter of nothing more clever on my part than luck.
-- Jim Fixx

#Clever #Luck #Matter
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop.
-- Jim Fixx

#Pain #Way #Slow Down
The qualities and capacities that are important in running-such factors as will power, the ability to apply effort during extreme fatigue and the acceptance of pain-have a radiating power that subtly influences one's life.
-- Jim Fixx

#Running #Pain #Acceptance
[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.
-- Jim Fixx

#Running #People #Teeth

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.
The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, Only a third is meant for you and me; Two-thirds are taken by the growing things Or vanish Heavenward on vapour's wings: Nor does it mathematically fall With social equity on one and all. The population's habit is to grow In every region where the water's low: Nature is blamed for failings that are Man's, And well-run rivers have to change their plans.
Louis de Bernires is in the direct line that runs through Dickens and Evelyn Waugh. . .he has only to look into his world, one senses, for it to rush into reality, colours and touch and taste.
Remember that sports are meant to be fun. Don't let someone make the sport unfun for you.
The science of booby-trapping has taken a good deal of the fun out of following hot on the enemy's heels.
I would love to work with Salman. We have a great tuning so if we work together, it will be great fun. But till the time we don't get a good script, a script that excites both of us, we can't work together.
Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?
It's been a straight strip, I must tell you, I've enjoyed it all the way. If I'm saying things to make it sound like it's hard, hard work, it's not. It's beautiful work. It's fun work. It's everything you'd ever want to do.
Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
Because Iâ€™ve had a taste and Iâ€™m not sharing. This isnâ€™t just for fun. I may be slightly addicted.

Jim Fixx famous quotes

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