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Christopher McDougall Quotes

Humans are built for endurance, not speed. We're awful sprinters compared to every other animal. We try to run our races as if they were speed races, but they are not. They're endurance races. Even a marathon, the way it's run now, it's not an endurance contest.

Christopher McDougall

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: 1962

Topics

Animal Speed Endurance Run Way Try

I've done both theatre and film and the fact is if you start believing, if you start reading things and they're good reviews - you believe that and you're lost, and then you read bad reviews and you think that's true and you read that and you're lost.

Good Theatre Start Believe Reading

When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.

Pressure Doing You Serious Know

My grandparents, Jim and Pat Moore, were an incredible couple. They drove me to the community theater, where I did plays as a kid.

Community Me Kid Grandparents Where

Progress really is possible.

Michael Bloomberg

Progress Possible Really

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

History Time Government Democracy

If you only do it for money, that's only what you get.

Stephen Bennett

Money You Get Only

In the last four years under the Patriot Act, we have seen a great increase in the ability of law enforcement officials to investigate and track terrorists.

Great Law Law Enforcement Patriot

I train in the cage all the time. I have my own cage in my gym.

Time Gym Train My Own Cage Own

Simultaneous contrast is not just a curious optical phenomenon - it is the very heart of painting.

Heart Curious Painting Contrast Just

As premiums continue to skyrocket, we must ensure that health insurers are not engaging in anticompetitive behavior and unfairly driving up health care costs.

Health Care Behavior Driving Up

Beauty is perfect in its imperfections, so you just have to go with the imperfections.

Diane von Furstenberg

Beauty You Perfect Go Imperfections

Most parents' goal is to launch their children into the world with all the tools they need to make it on their own.

Children Parents World Tools Goal

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