"Too many people have refused to begin running or have quickly dropped out of running programs because they 'have no talent for it.' Ridiculous. Talent has nothing to do with it. The only thing that matters is mental discipline."

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

Amby Burfoot

#Running Quotes #Discipline Quotes #People Quotes

“This led me to understand that trade unionism, the instrument of working-class liberation and of social change could, and indeed should, be also an instrument of industrial progress.”
“There comes a time when the pain of continuing exceeds the pain of stopping. At that moment, a threshold is crossed. What seemed unthinkable becomes thinkable. Slowly, the realization emerges that the choice to continue what you have been doing is the choice to live in discomfort, and the choice to stop what you have been doing is the choice to breathe deeply and freely again. Once that realization has emerged, you can either honor it or ignore it, but you cannot forget it. What has become known can not become unknown again.”

Source : Gary Zukav (2012). “Soul to Soul: Communications From the Heart”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.”

Source : "Working Profile; Helping the Library of Congress Fulfill Its Mission" by Barbara Gamarekian, archive.nytimes.com. July 8, 1983.
“The apostles were very sure that everything of theirs which had to do with salvation was a gift to them from God. 'Increase our faith' (Lk. 17:5). They did not presume that the fullness of faith would come to them merely because they freely opted for it. They believed, rather, that it was a gift of God which would have to be granted to them.”
“Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.”
“the smile you give is the smile you get back.”

Source : Goldie Hawn (2006). “A Lotus Grows in the Mud”, p.19, Penguin
“No, I don't have a boyfriend, I don't want one.”

Source : "Recognise That Smile?" by Elaine Lipworth, YOU Magazine, July 24, 2005.
“Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.”

Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso

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