"It's a hard, simple calculus: Run until you can't run anymore. Then run some more. Find a new source of energy and will. Then run even faster."

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Source : Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.5, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Scott Jurek

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“I've never been one to run around in Speedos on the beach.”
“If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world.”
“Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.”
“The greatest sign of success for a teacher... is to be able to say, 'The children are now working as if I did not exist.'”
“A libretto that should never have been accepted on a subject that should never have been chosen bya man who should never have attempted it.”
“The fear inside of loneliness: That only what others have is real.”
“...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.”
“I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon,”

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