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“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT EINSTEIN”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The student who elects to risk it all—which is nothing—to establish an online video rental service that delivers $5,000 per month in income from a small niche of Blu-ray aficionados, a two-hour-per-week side project that allows him to work full-time as an animal rights lobbyist.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Life is too short to be small.      —BENJAMIN DISRAELI”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective—doing less—is the path of the productive.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“It’s amazing how someone’s IQ seems to double as soon as you give them responsibility and indicate that you trust them.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“The future is here. It’s just not widely distributed yet. —WILLIAM GIBSON,”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. —VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If your mind is dirty you can run 10,000 miles, but where have you gotten? If you go for a 1-mile run and you’re passionately engaged with the world, who cares about the other 9,999?”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“By combining instinct and technique, I searched for that small zone where I could push myself as hard as possible without injury and the unraveling of the body’s systems. Accessing and staying in that small zone is the key to success.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“When you run on the earth and with the earth, you can run forever. —RARAMURI PROVERB”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“while the Tarahumara run to get from point to point, in the process they travel into a zone beyond geography and beyond even the five senses.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“You want to get the promotion at work, or the girl, or the guy, or the personal best in the 5K race, of course. But whether you get what you want isn’t what defines you. It’s how you go about your business.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“My injury provided a great excuse to lose. But I didn’t want an excuse.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Laura Vaughan, who set a women’s record at the Hardrock in 1997, the only year she ran it, also was the first person to finish the Wasatch Front 100 for ten consecutive years and the first woman to break 24 hours. That makes her fast. What makes her tough, though—what makes her a bona fide Hardrocker—is that in 1996, nine weeks after giving birth to a son, she ran the Wasatch and breastfed her baby at the aid stations. Her ten-year ring from the event is engraved “Lactating Laura.” Tough?”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“The reward of running—of anything—lies within us.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“She died on March 22. Those last hours I didn’t stop stroking her hair or telling her, “Don’t worry, I’m here.” I told her that I was a good cook because of her. I told her I ate fresh fruit and vegetables because of her. I told her I ran because of her. I told her I could still picture the little garden on our dead-end road. I could feel the rough wooden spoon, my hands clutching it, hers covering mine. I told her I remembered that, how warm her hands felt. I told her I loved her and that she would always be with me. I didn’t tell her I was lost.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. —BRUCE LEE”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“Let the beauty we love be what we do. —RUMI”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“For those hours on the Tonto Trail, we didn’t know anything except the land and the sky and our bodies. I was free from everything except what I was doing at that very moment, floating between what was and what would be as surely as I was suspended between river and rim. Finally I remembered what I had found in ultrarunning. I remembered what I had lost.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“We can live as we were meant to live—simply, joyously, of and on the earth. We can live with all our effort and with pure happiness.”
― Scott Jurek, Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

“The prize never goes to the fastest guy,” Chris replied. “It goes to the guy who slows down the least.” True in endurance sports. And possibly even truer in life.”
― Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

“The only thing I knew with clarity was that a voice deep in my heart continued to chant, Keep going. You’re on the right track.”
― Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

“when the mind is controlled and spirit aligned with purpose, the body is capable of so much more than we realize.”
― Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

“Do what you love; love those you care about; give service to others; and know that you’re on the right path. There’s a new path waiting for you, too. All you have to do is look for it—then take that first step. If you show up and stay present, that step will eventually become a gigantic leap forward. And then you’ll show us who you really are.”
― Rich Roll, Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming One of the World's Fittest Men, and Discovering Myself

“There’s something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we’re scared, we run when we’re ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Korima sounds like karma and functions the same way, except in the here and now. It’s your obligation to share whatever you can spare, instantly and with no expectations: once the gift leaves your hand, it was never yours to begin with. The Tarahumara have no monetary system, so korima is how they do business: their economy is based on trading favors and the occasional cauldron of corn beer.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“Know why he could do it? Because no one ever told him he couldn’t. No one ever told him he oughta be off dying somewhere in an old age home. You live up to your own expectations, man.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

“You don’t have to be fast. But you’d better be fearless.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen