Quotes About Marathoning

#1. Yes, my dad's a marathoner. He used to do sprint distances and then started marathoning. My mom is an endurance animal. She does three-day events like the Susan G. Komen three-day walk.

Dean Karnazes

#2. Marathoning is like cutting yourself unexpectedly. You dip into the pain so gradually that the damage is done before you are aware of it. Unfortunately, when the awareness comes, it is excruciating.

John Farrington

#3. Elite runners are genetically gifted, sure, but without intense training, those gifts are wasted. Their training creates a strong work ethic that leaves humility in its wake. There are no short cuts in marathoning, so anyone who is a marathoner has worked hard.

Jeff Horowitz

#4. Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.

Robert Graves

#5. You wanna build your IQ higher in the next two years? Be uncomfortable. That means, learn something where you have a beginner's mind.

Nolan Bushnell

#6. You spend a good part of your adult life acquiring things: building a home, filling it with objects that please your eye and make you feel comfortable. Then you spend the last part of your life trying to figure out how to get rid of it all.

Lauren Bacall

#7. We are finding new areas in the ocean every day. It's as alien as going to outer space.

Geoff Johns

#8. Wealth can be multiplied through work

Sunday Adelaja

#9. I find myself wanting to make music at the dining room table or in the bedroom - I'm kind of a mobile writer, so I sort of move around the house. But the attic is definitely where I can make the most noise. While everyone on the lower floors screams 'Earthquake!' But no! It's just my bass!

Meshell Ndegeocello

#10. I walk like an ocean wave, and I sing like a storm. My voice is a force of its own, and I let it loose like a hurricane.

C.D. Reiss

#11. Let's here it for modern dentistry, eh? I said, and he grimaced. Actually, as much as people dislike going to the dentist now, try doing it two hundred years ago, when having a cavity meant some quack knocking it out with a chisel and a hammer in the market square. With no anesthetic.

Cate Tiernan

#12. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its cost.

Barack Obama

#13. He didn't want to go forward, but he always wanted to get another chance.

Ann Brashares

#14. I will not love you. I will have no use for you other than sex and photo ops. That is something you might want to consider when making your decision.

Alessandra Torre

#15. We cannot compare our position to the people in this world

Sunday Adelaja

#16. When I meet a girl, I just sort of do really over-exaggerated terrible dance moves ... a lot of hip movements. I get them laughing, and get them to feel pity for me, and then they like me!

Nicholas D'Agosto

#17. Sometimes an ethnographic inquiry will lead to new ways to use an existing technology or will generate new technologies.

Katie Hafner

#18. 'Creative Commons' is the self-congratulatory name of a self-congratulatory movement. Somewhat like kibbutz on the Internet, the idea is to write programs - 'free ware' - and distribute them without charge.

Mark Helprin