"The point was living with grace, decency, and attention to the world, and breaking free of the artificial constructs in your own life."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.105, A&C Black

Scott Jurek

#Grace Quotes #Attention Quotes #World Quotes

“Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.”
“I battle to fall asleep at night. My mind races every other night. I have always been like this, for as long as I can reminder.”
“The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.”
“One of the reasons poetry is such an amazing genre to work with is because it constantly reinvents itself and re-negotiates its terms with the reader.”

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“My father died right after the movie Rain Man was released. He got to see it, then literally the day before he died, he asked Mama to take him to see it one more time - because he knew he was declining. Tom's assistant at the time told him my father died, and he wrote me a very personal note. I haven't seen him since, but you can't say anything bad about Tom Cruise to me, because anybody who takes the time to do that is very special.”
“I really respect the new generation, people who are maybe 12 or 13. I think it's really important to understand the future customer - their tastes and their dreams. What my generation is dreaming of is different from what my parents dreamt.”
“Love the questions, themselves.”
“We went to the moon to have fun, but the moon turned out to completely suck.”

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