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Quotes About Stride

The point here is that getting started in time is critical. So when should a hitter start his stride? When the pitcher's lead leg hits the ground.
~ Charley Lau
walking with the bowlegged swagger all the horselords affected when forced to dismount and stride the earth like common mortals.
~ George R.R. Martin
Progress - the stride of God!
~ Victor Hugo
In these cases, the mind knows what it's doing better than the guile, because the mind flows, the guile dams up, that is, the mind stride but the guile limps. And that's no guileless statement, however, and that's no Harvard like, as MIT will measure soon with computers and docks of Martian data.
~ Jack Kerouac
Don't you hate waking up after the day's already started?" Jake usually asks, like it's a race. As though by the time I roll out of bed I'm already lagging behind everyone else, as if I'll never be able to catch my stride.
~ T. Greenwood
Yet it is true that there was an absent mindedness about her which sometimes made her clumsy; she was apt to think of poetry when she should have been thinking of taffeta; her walk was a little too much of a stride for a woman, perhaps, and her gestures, being abrupt, might endanger a cup of tea on occasion.
~ Virginia Woolf
Rolling orange fire silhouetted him from behind, backlighting the warrior's broad shoulders and casual, long-legged stride. As he strolled away from the inferno, the ends of his loose black coat winged out behind him like a cape befitting the prince of darkness himself. "Holy hell," Brock murmured. "Tegan.
~ Lara Adrian
I am, a stride at a time. A very short space of time through very short time of space.
~ James Joyce
off the bed to the left and run for the
~ James Patterson
He slowed his pace as he came
~ James Patterson
His condition shocked her, needless to say, but she had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon, and within an hour she'd taken it in her stride.
~ Clive Barker, Weaveworld, 1987
If you've got enough money to solve the problem, you don't have the problem." In the beginning of your career, you spend time to earn money. Once you hit your stride in any capacity, you should spend money to earn time, as the latter is nonrenewable. It can be hard to make and maintain this gear shift, so the above question is in my regular journaling rotation.
~ Timothy Ferriss
I was very sure that in the journey of Bigg Boss' house, Salman sir's feedback is what is going to make me even stronger. So, I took everything in a positive stride and I can say that his feedback was the crucial contribution to my journey towards success.
~ Rubina Dilaik
I've learned a lot, been a sponge and just continued to take criticism in stride in good positive energy.
~ Danny Green
A perfect run has nothing to do with distance. It's when your stride feels comfortable.
~ Sean Astin
A runner's stride is not perfectly efficient.
~ Nancy Gibbs
Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.
~ Terri Irwin
Daniels began filming elite athletes, and he noticed something fascinating: they all tended to run at about 180 steps per minute—ninety per leg—whether going fast or slow. To accelerate, they just lengthened their stride without changing that 180-beat rhythm. Daniels then turned his attention toward new runners, and found they typically had a much slower cadence, more like 160. The mistake these beginners were making, Daniels realized, was confusing quick with hard.
~ Christopher McDougall
My name is Harry Dresden, I said. Fitz stumbled. Holy shit, he said. Like... that Harry Dresden? The professional wizard? The one and only. He recovered his pace and shook his head. I heard you were dead. Well, yeah, I said, but I'm taking it in stride.
~ Jim Butcher
A characteristic of Maxwell's work, indeed his life, was that he seemed to take everything in his stride—he was never hurried. Somehow, he and Katherine managed to go riding in the park most afternoons and, of course, they went on accumulating data on color vision, asking all new houseguests to have a go. They had installed the latest big color box near the window in an upstairs
~ Unknown