"Nature's arena has a way of humbling and energizing us."

--

Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scott Jurek

#Arena Quotes #Way Quotes #Energizing Quotes

“He can't imagine the result of the mission because he never saw it.”
“Support the ones you love when it is their moment to risk.”
“Scholarships that allow students to get a good education are important, but first we want to measure the progress that the schools are teaching our students, we want to hold them accountable for the progress, we want to hold the schools accountable for teaching the young people in America.”

Source : "Face The Nation" with Bob Schieffer, multimedia.cbs.com. January 21, 2001.
“The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.”
“Well I thought my pickin' would set them on fire, but nobody wanted to hire a guitar man.”
“There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.”
“We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical lesson, to renew the heart, and to bring us back to the state from whence we are fallen.”

Source : Charles Simeon (1833). “Horae homilecticae: or discourses (principally in the form of skeletons) now first digested into one continued series, and forming a commentary upon every book of the Old and New Testament; to which is annezed an improved edition of a translation of Claude's essay on the composition of a sermon...”, p.352
“EdX will be a creating a platform which will be open source, not for profit, and a portal for a website where universities will offer their courses. For example, MIT courses will be offered as MITx and Harvard courses as HarvardX.”

You may also like: