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"Why should I practice running slow? I already know how to run slow. I want to learn to run fast."
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"What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
"If one can stick to the training throughout the many long years, then will power is no longer a problem. It's raining? That doesn't matter. I am tired? That's besides the point. It's simply that I just have to."
"When I was young, I was too slow. I thought I must learn to run fast by practicing to run fast, so I ran 100 meters fast 20 times. Then I came back, slow, slow, slow."
"To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come."
"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."
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"What we learn in meditation, we can apply to all other realms of our lives."
"Yoga is a method to come to a nondreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now."
"Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice."
"As you jump new hurdles, you gain greater confidence. Confidence can be achieved like any other practiced skill."
"I maintain that many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."
"Even though NASA tries to simulate launch, and we practice in simulators, it's not the same - it's not even close to the same."
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