Quotes About Inspiration

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

I wanted them to see not just that the Bible contains a number of texts which happen to provide a rationale for missionary endeavor but that the whole Bible is itself a "missional" phenomenon.

Christopher Kenworthy

Many gardeners will agree that hand-weeding is not the terrible drudgery that it is often made out to be. Some people find in it a kind of soothing monotony. It leaves their minds free to develop the plot for their next novel or to perfect the brilliant repartee with which they should have encountered a relative's latest example of unreasonableness.

If we can dream it, we can do it.

Don't hesitate or allow yourself to make excuses. Just get out and do it. Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did.

Sometimes,' she said, 'it takes a woman to bring out the best in a man.

That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered that running was mankind's first fine art, our original act of inspired creation.

Now, Ah Hing, I'm going to teach you how to fight like a woman. —GRANDMASTER IP MAN, Bruce Lee's teacher

And if I really wanted to understand the Raramuri, I should have been there when this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't.

Just because men and women of our era don't live up to the myths doesn't mean no one ever has, or ever will again.

this ninety-five-year-old man came hiking twenty-five miles over the mountain. Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn't. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.

If he could do it, Churchill was certain, so could his fellow misfits.

Trenér Vigil se tedy pokoušel najít odpov?? na hlavní otázku: Byl Zátopek velký ?lov?k, který navíc náhodou b?hal, nebo byl takový, protože b?hal?

Know why people run marathons? Because running is rooted in our collective imagination, and our imagination is rooted in running. Language, art, science; space shuttles, Starry Night, intravascular surgery; they all had their roots in our ability to run. Running was the superpower that made us human.

De alguna manera, entre ellos descubrieron cómo cortar la grasa sin sacrificar nada del sabor de mi prosa.

Vigil no acababa de dar en el clavo, pero su instinto le decía que había algún tipo de conexión entre la capacidad de amar y la capacidad de amar correr.

Zatopek found a way to run so that when he won, every other teams were delighted.

Maybe Ron Clarke wasn't being poetic in his description of Zatopek—maybe his expert eye was clinically precise: His love of life shone through every movement. Yes! Love of life! Exactly! That's what got Vigil's heart thumping when he saw Juan and Martimano scramble happy-go-luckily up that dirt hill. He'd found his Natural Born Runner.

The ancient Greeks knew this; their entire culture was built on the premise that everyone is tinged with a touch of the godly. To be a hero, you had to learn how to think, run, fight, and talk—even eat, sleep, and crawl—like a hero.

Sabes por qué podía hacerlo? Porque nunca nadie le había dicho que no podía. Nunca nadie le había dicho que debía estar muriéndose en algún asilo de ancianos. Uno vive según sus propias expectativas, amigo. Como

Christopher McDougall

Gradually, the backroom brawler named Mike Hickman disappeared. In his place arose Micah True, a name inspired by "the courageous and fearless spirit" of the Old Testament prophet Micah and the loyalty of an old mutt called True Dog.

Even Cliff Young, the sixty-three-year-old farmer who stunned Australia in 1983 by beating the best ultrarunners in the country in a 507-mile race from Sydney to Melbourne, did it all on beans, beer, and oatmeal ("I used to feed the calves by hand and they thought I was their mother," Young said. "I couldn't sleep too good those nights when I knew they would get slaughtered." He switched to grains and potatoes, and slept a whole lot better. Ran pretty good, too).