"To see what they see, sit where they sit."

-- Bruce Pandolfini

“It looks easy, like surfing, but surfing is hard too.”
“Training is like putting money in a bank. You deposit money, and then you can take it out.”

Source : Fred Lebow (1994). “New York Road Runners Club Complete Book of Running”, Random House Reference
“I've been my most happy and my most unhappy in relationships. I have family and friends and people I care very much about. I've got a really, really, really good life.”
“What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.”

Source : Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.340
“Sometimes it is quite surprising, the emotional intensity of it. I was in NY one day, in Barnes and Noble, and I could see this woman following me around and after a bit I stopped and said 'Hello' and she just looked at me and said: â€œPLEASE LET EDITH BE HAPPY!â€”
“It is not the fault of the entrepreneurs that the consumers,the people, the common man,prefer liquor to Bibles and detective stories to serious books, and that governments prefer guns to butter. The entrepreneur does not make greater profits in selling bad things than in selling good things. His profits are the greater the better he succeeds in providing the consumers with those things they ask for most intensely.”
“At eighty-one, health club-lusting is as close as I'll ever come to getting laid again.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“The sense of anxiety and guilt doesn't come from having too much to do; it's the automatic result of breaking agreements with yourself.”

Source : David Allen (2015). “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity”, p.229, Penguin

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