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Emil Zatopek Quotes

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

Emil Zatopek

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: athlete
Nationality: czechoslovakian
Birth: September 19, 1922 - November 22, 2000

Topics

Climb Enthusiasm You Goal Bitterness

Now listen, the one thing about agriculture is we've lost our manufacturing, we've lost a great deal of jobs overseas, lots of our industry. The last thing in the world we need to do is lose the ability to produce our food.

John Boozman

Great Food World Agriculture Lose

Before the trip began we mapped out three primary goals: 1) to see and meet with our American troops, and thank them for their bravery and sacrifice; 2) to assess the security situation in Iraq; and 3) to give our support to Iraq's national unity government.

John Boehner

Goals Sacrifice Government Support

In the United States in 2009, more than 10.2 billion trips were taken on transit trains and buses. So far, the nation has not experienced a major transit attack since Sept. 11, but the March 2010 Moscow subway bombings and earlier train attacks in London and Mumbai show that we must be prepared.

John Mica

Be Prepared Train London More Mumbai

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Ambrose Bierce

Art Thinking Logic Misunderstanding

Leadership is a mindset in action. So don't wait for the title. Leadership isn't something that anyone can give you - you have to earn it and claim it for yourself.

Travis Bradberry

Leadership Yourself Wait Action You

Reason is an action of the mind; knowledge is a possession of the mind; but faith is an attitude of the person. It means you are prepared to stake yourself on something being so.

Michael Ramsey

Attitude Faith Knowledge Yourself

I don't do any songs that I'm sick of now - sometimes even songs that I request. If I'm sick of 'em I don't do 'em even for myself.

Jonathan Richman

Myself Sick Now Sometimes Request

The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result is that starving people in China are looking up things on marthastewart.com?

Douglas Coupland

People World Looking End Internet

I used to spend all my school holidays cycling around, so all this training has made me feel like a kid again.

Denise Van Outen

Training School Me Holidays Feel

Well, you know, I'm the forever optimist.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

You Know Optimist Forever Well

Incorporating genetics into a platform with the reach of ResearchKit will accelerate insights into illness and disease even further.

Anne Wojcicki

Reach Genetics Will Illness Disease

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

Phil Klay

Courage Experience Politics War You