"The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface."

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Herb Elliott

#Running Quotes #Distance Quotes #Track Quotes

“Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.”

Source : Massachusetts. Board of Education, Horace Mann (1849). “The Massachusetts System of Common Schools: Being an Enlarged and Rev. Ed of the Tenth Annual Report of the First Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education”, p.80
“Country music will never be the same.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“To me, art almost always speaks more forcefully when it appears in an imperfect, accidental, and fragmentary way, somehow just signaling its presence, allowing one to feel it through the ineptitude of the interpretation. I prefer the Chopin that reaches me in the street from an open window to the Chopin served in great style from the concert stage.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (1988). “Diary”, p.32, Northwestern University Press
“Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.”

Source : Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books
“I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time.”
“I do find, coming form the stage and all that, I've always been conscious of my posture and my body, but also the style aspect, I do find myself throwing on a blazer and a nice pair of loafers more often. Daddy always likes a new pair of Guccis.”
“Of all times, it is Christmas when we must surely realize that there can be no true worship of Him who is the Christ without giving of ourselves. At this season let us, each one, reach out a little more generously in the spirit of the Christ. It is not enough to give toys and baubles. It is not enough to give alms to those in need.... It is also important that we give of ourselves with our alms.”
“Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.”

Source : William Cobbett (1847). “A grammar of the English language, etc”, p.192

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