In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.
Mao Tse-Tung
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole ...
Rainer Maria Rilke
Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my ...
John Bingham
Actually, for some time now I have given some thought to opening a film school. But if I did start one up you would only be allowed to fill out an application form after you have walked alone on foot, let`s say from Madrid to Kiev, a distance of about fiv...
Werner Herzog
I`m a believer. I try to be near God, because when I feel that there`s a certain distance, everything begins to look like a blur. It makes the road somewhat smoother. When I feel that I`m without God, I have to make an effort to drag my feet to keep on go...
Shakira
I think you have to keep your distance from mainstream Hollywood in order to be a normal human being. I mean, I work there, and I like being there, but I love having an anonymous life. I think there`s definitely such a thing as being too famous.
The re...
Sarah Polley
[on the Oxford-vs.-Cambridge Boat Race] The year was 1980, I was #4 in this particular encounter, and the result was a loss by Cambridge by a distance of five feet, which is something which I will carry to my grave . . . in fact, I shouldn`t really say th...
Hugh Laurie
My partners weren`t what we call in horse racing parlance routers. They were sprinters; they went out of the gate, but then they stopped. They couldn`t go the distance.
Mickey Rooney
It had to have rocks in the distance, so the water could strike the boulders and shoot upward -- all very symbolic. The scene turned out to be deeply affecting on film, but, God, it was no fun to shoot. We had to time it for the waves, so that at just the...
Deborah Kerr
When I arrived in Sydney, I spent 22 weeks in this $50-a-week place with just a bed, a cupboard and the toilet halfway down the corridor. For the first time my parents were some distance away. I did a lot of thinking and realized I appreciated what my fat...
Russell Crowe
[about acting with the other cast] It was this feeling the whole time like I shouldn`t be here among all these stars and professionals. I was trying to keep my distance because I wanted to watch everyone. But they want you to feel at home and be part of i...
Evanna Lynch
It`s my hope that we`re getting into an era where the value of a film is based on its proximity to real life rather than its distance from it. To do that, you need actors - stars, basically - who don`t necessarily look like Ben Affleck.
Alexander Payne
Will never told me he was doing this, but I think he kept distance to let me explore and really feel like it was mine - and not like someone was holding my hand. (On making her album Kiss The Sky)
Tatyana Ali
(on why he moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career) "It was within Greyhound striking distance of home. It was a good place to start out."
Ron Livingston
You know, people really have not been buying into these stocks lately, ... They`re extremely undervalued. Remember one thing: they own the first mile to every customer that`s out there. When they get into long distance, which they will eventually late thi...
Bruce Roberts
Flirting is the art of keeping intimacy at a safe distance.
Sabina Sesselmann
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