"I don't think you can become an outstanding runner unless you get a certain amount of enjoyment out of the suffering. You have to enjoy absorbing it, controlling it, and - ultimately - overcoming it."

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Derek Clayton

#Thinking Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“I have met a great celebrity, Madame Dudevant, known as George Sand... Her appearance is not to my liking. Indeed there is something about her which positively repels me... What an unattractive person La Sand is... Is she really a woman? I'm inclined to doubt it.”
“Debts are nowadays like children begot with pleasure, but brought forth in pain.”
“Programmers work in bursts of productivity. Then, they let the brain rest and get back into it. A lot about the office world is not a great fit for me.”
“Because prison sentences in America tend to be long, de-incarceration lags falling crime rates by a fair amount, but eventually it does catch up.”
“Inspiration follows aspiration.”
“Country music has the great stories.”
“Sorcery is the sauce fools spoon over failure to hide the flavor of their own incompetence.”
“Language does not make one an elite.”

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