"There was nothing unusual about my victory. The entire story was back in eighth place. There is simply no way to imagine how good Jim Ryun is or how far he will go after he becomes an adult. What he did was more significant than Roger Bannister's first mile under 4 minutes."

-- Dyrol Burleson

#Running Quotes #Victory Quotes #Adults Quotes

“Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about”
“Why is everybody afraid of going to Heaven? You want to be here with the smog and the sin and bad people and the war? Or do you want to be in Heaven, sitting next to Jesus, you know?”
“This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.”
“Highland has changed my entire way of working with scripts. I use it every day.”
“It should be everyone's right in a capitalist system to have some way to take advantage of compound interest.”

Source : "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Capitalist". Interview with Benjamin Samuel, www.gelfmagazine.com. January 19, 2009.
“I've worked a lot during the night. But I don't sleep in the day either.”
“We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the sequel give away a larger loopiness). But I tend to dwell or obsess or meditate, and I came back to, for instance, the figure of Dickens's "Miss Havisham" with some (self) recognition if not relief.”
“Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.”

Source : Oliver Sacks (2015). “Gratitude”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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