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Don Kardong Quotes

New nemeses keep racing fresh, but I also find challenge in going longer, with only the distance as foe. I run my first 50-mile race, journey across the Grand Canyon and back, circumnavigate Mount St. Helens.

Don Kardong

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: american
Birth: December 22, 1948

Topics

Journey Challenge Racing Back Find

But the key shift in focus will be from counter-insurgency operations to more and more cooperation with Iraqi security forces and to building Iraqi security capacity.

John Abizaid

Focus Building Key Security Will

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

John F. Kennedy

Risks Action Chance Long Inaction

'Rules dieters' find limitations oddly freeing, because the restrictions create a framework that's easy to follow. Essentially, rules dieters don't do well when they're let off plan, mainly because they are usually emotionally attached to food in some way.

John Romaniello

Food Plan Easy Rules Find Create

Never ask your employees to do something you wouldn't be willing to do yourself.

John T. Chambers

Yourself Employees You Never Ask

Truly successful people don't rise to the top by acting tough; they become better by growing stronger.

Amy Morin

People Tough Better Stronger Acting

My goal as an actor was to work - to be a working actor, whether it was in theater, and, well, I didn't even consider film and television when I was in New York, but what came along, came along.

Stephen Root

Work New York Television Goal New

In New York, working at the foundry, I was making these little figures. I desperately would like to make big figures, but I just can't do it; my hands don't do it. We were talking about making bronze plinths, and then we made one, a square one. I wrote on it, then I put a little figure on top, and it just looked really good. It worked.

Tracey Emin

Good New York Talking Hands New Top

Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Rob Sheffield

Day Baseball Race First Opening Out

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's already of discomfort inside of you and tap into that.

Michael Moore

Art Purpose Feel Uncomfortable You

When something you use again and again is on sale, take advantage. This strategy doesn't apply to perishable items, and you don't want to buy so much more than you need just to get a deal, but if you know you're going to use a product eventually, it pays to take advantage of the cheaper price.

Jean Chatzky

Strategy You Price Know Want Need

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Purpose Fast Need Bless Used Only

I remember being infuriated from the top of my head to the tip of my toes the first time a screen was put around Bob Carter and me on a train leaving Washington in the 1940s.

Constance Baker Motley

Time Me Remember Train Washington