Tractive Effort Quotes

#1. Thinking about something is the surest way to miss out on the beauty of that actual something.

Bentinho Massaro

#2. You can wish as hard as you like but all that really matters is the shape you're in on the day of the race. I've always felt these really big races aren't necessarily won by whoever is the fastest. They're won by the athlete who is the smartest and in the best shape on the day.

Paula Radcliffe

#3. You stand next to the sea and you're in touch with all your longings and all your losses.

Elizabeth Hay

#4. Say it isn't true
That there always has been and always will be war
Say it isn't true
And apart from all the fine things that man has struggled for
Say it isn't true
There always has been and always will be war

Jackson Browne

#5. He was scrupulous about the use of his title because, his investigations being so utterly unscientific, he hoped to borrow an air of respectability, even scholarly authority, from his education.

Shirley Jackson

#6. Work is the price which is paid for reputation.

Baltasar Gracian

#7. If procrastination were a marketable skill, I'd be a real hot commodity.

Dov Davidoff

#8. There are not enough jails, not enough police, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people.

Hubert H. Humphrey

#9. Beside me, Philippe and Meg hold hands. He murmurs something that sounds like, "my dear leetle mongoose." I wish he'd turn back into a frog and hop away.

Alex Flinn