"You have to look good when you are riding, you have to impress your adversary with your elegance. To look good is already to go fast."

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Source : Paul Fournel (2003). “Need for the Bike”, p.48, U of Nebraska Press

Paul Fournel

#Riding Quotes #Looks Quotes #Elegance Quotes

“Money does all things,--for it gives and it takes away; it makes honest men and knaves, fools and philosophers; and so forward, mutatis mutandis, to the end of the chapter.”
“I teach metaphysics and pastor a church.”
“Behind good brands lie stakeholder companies.”
“I mean, I didn't - I should have demanded attention of the boss maybe, or something like that that might have backfired. This I would just take as it came.”
“Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, [and] always finish what you start.”
“I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.”
“The way good inventions are made is to familiarize yourself with those of others. The men who cultivate letters and the arts are all sons of Homer.”
“The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.”

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