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U.S. businessman visiting China a few years ago. The American came upon a team of 100 workers building a dam with shovels. Shovels. He

The thing that makes being in shape so difficult is that it requires switching between two different states of mind; doing something, to exercise,

If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds worth of distance run, Yours is the earth and everything that’s in it…

Your margin is my opportunity.

Leonardo da Vinci by Isaacson, chapter 8, Vitruvian man Wolf Hall, by Hillary Mantel, Preface, quote attributed to Vitruvius, De Architectura, on the theatre,

Nike’s scientists advance basically the same argument: if Kipchoge or one of his teammates succeeds in breaking two hours under the artificial conditions in

Although the early British expeditions to Everest in the 1920s were ambivalent about bottled oxygen, considering it less sporting, climbing with a mask on

Kennedy’s most famous achievement in alpinism, however, came on one of the sport’s most infamous routes, the Compressor, on Patagonia’s Cerro Torre. The line,

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily. Trollope, Anthony. Barchester Towers (Kindle Location 2640). Kindle Edition.

“It is so easy to condemn,” said he, continuing the thread of his thoughts. “I know no life that must be so delicious as