"Wanting to win races is detrimental to courage. You tend to run too conservatively because you want to wait and sprint. If you are there to force the pace, to CREATE greatness rather than to have greatness, Courageous moves are a part of your race."

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Source : Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

Gerry Lindgren

#Running Quotes #Moving Quotes #Winning Quotes

“Everyone has to scratch on walls somewhere or they go crazy”

Source : Michael Ondaatje (2011). “In the Skin of a Lion”, p.75, Vintage
“The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.”
“I'm a truth seeker. That's what I do every day on the show - put out the truth. Some people don't like it, they call it sensational, but I say life is sensational.”
“For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck.”
“When you're up against a superior enemy, sometimes it's okay to just bow out gracefully”
“Outside our consciousness there lies the cold and alien world of actual things. Between the two stretches the narrow borderland of the senses. No communication between the two worlds is possible excepting across the narrow strip. For a proper understanding of ourselves and of the world, it is of the highest importance that this borderland should be thoroughly explored.”

Source : Heinrich Hertz (1896). “Miscellaneous Papers”
“Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.”
“Preliminary drawings or sketches in oil or pastel often have an immediacy and emotional appeal far greater than the final canvas.”

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