"We move forward, but we must stay in the present."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.184, A&C Black

Scott Jurek

#Moving Quotes #Moving Forward Quotes

“A man without imagination is like a bird without wings.”
“Itâ€™s all right,â€ she said. â€œYouâ€™re through.â€ â€œJesus,â€ he finally managed, pushing water off his face. â€œJesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John.â€ Still not enough. He needed to reach back to the Old Testament for this. â€œObadiah. Nebuchadnezzar. Methuselah and Job.â€ â€œBe calm,â€ she said, taking him by the shoulders. â€œBe calm. And there are women in the Bible, you know.â€ â€œYes. As I recall it, they were trouble, every last one.”
“One of life's joys was to have friends who gave you reality checks...who would call you on your crap before it rose so high you drowned in it.”
“One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict.”
“Within every man and woman a secret is hidden, and as a photographer it is my task to reveal it if I can. The revelation, if it comes at all, will come in a small fraction of a second with an unconscious gesture, a gleam of the eye, a brief lifting of the mask that all humans wear to conceal their innermost selves from the world. In that fleeting interval of opportunity the photographer must act or lose his prize.”
“Industrialisation is necessary. But acquisition is by no means the only avenue through which it can be achieved. The Cochin Airport is a prime example of this. Instead of choosing to acquire the land, the State asked the private parties to negotiate with the landowners directly. The State merely acted as an arbitrator.”
“These people in the North-East of Ireland, from old prejudices perhaps more than from anything else, from the whole of their past history, would prefer, I believe, to accept the government of a foreign country rather than submit to be governed by hon. Gentlemen below the Gangway.”

Source : Bonar Law's speech in the House of Commons, api.parliament.uk. January 1, 1913.
“My first audition was the worst I have ever done, ever.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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