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“And so one more to the wandering road. Beyond Blackheath the highway began a steep and curvaceous descent towards Lithgow, where it skirted along hem of the mountains...”
― Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island

“Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.”
― Paul Theroux

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.”
― Paul Theroux, Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town

“Man wants to own his existence. But no one owns time.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.”
― Mitch Albom, The Time Keeper

“What could my mother be
to yours? What kin is my father
to yours anyway? And how
did you and I meet ever?

But in love

our hearts have mingled
like red earth and pouring rain.”
― Vikram Chandra, Red Earth and Pouring Rain

“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.”
― Steve Jobs

“When he was turning thirty, Jobs had used a metaphor about record albums. He was musing about why folks over thirty develop rigid thought patterns and tend to be less innovative. " People get stuck in those patterns, just like grooves in a record, and they never get out of them, " he said. At age forty-five, Jobs was now about to get out of his groove.”
― Walter Isaacson, Steve Jobs

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”
― Victor Hugo

“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You just hold your head high and keep those fists down. No matter what anybody says to you, don't you let 'em get your goat. Try fightin' with your head for a change.
-Atticus Finch”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I realised, in all humility, that chosing to lead one kind of life means putting aside the desire to pursue other option.”
― Verghese Kurien, I Too Had a Dream

“Are you the sort of person who can turn around when you have nothing left, and find that little bit extra inside you to keep going, or do you sag and wilt with exhaustion? It is a mental game, and it is hard to tell how people will react until they are squeezed.”
― Bear Grylls, Mud, Sweat and Tears

“Have faith in yourself, but also have faith in faith. Not faith as others define it. Faith as you define it. Faith as faith defines itself in your heart. In”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Starting my own business was the only thing that made life’s other risks—marriage, Vegas, alligator wrestling—seem like sure things. But my hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I’d fail quickly, so I’d have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn’t much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“The cowards never started and the weak died along the way. That leaves us, ladies and gentlemen. Us.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Life is growth. You grow or you die.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“Like it or not, life is a game.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to-equally important qualities in a friend. Essential in a travel companion.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“He was easy to talk to, and easy not to talk to—equally important qualities in a friend.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of NIKE

“Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that. —Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“There’s a kind of exuberant clarity in that pulsing half second before winning and losing are decided. I wanted that, whatever that was, to be my life, my daily life. At”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“But my hope was that when I failed, if I failed, I'd fail quickly, so I'd have enough time, enough years, to implement all the hard-won lessons. I wasn't much for setting goals, but this goal kept flashing through my mind every day, until it became my internal chant: Fail fast.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“For that matter, few ideas are as crazy as my favorite thing, running. It’s hard. It’s painful. It’s risky. The rewards are few and far from guaranteed. When you run around an oval track, or down an empty road, you have no real destination. At least, none that can fully justify the effort. The act itself becomes the destination. It’s not just that there’s no finish line; it’s that you define the finish line. Whatever pleasures or gains you derive from the act of running, you must find them within. It’s all in how you frame it, how you sell it to yourself. Every”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, shorter as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And important. Above all... different.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike

“There were many ways down Mount Fuji, according to my guidebook, but only one way up.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“I got into the habit every night of phoning my father from my recliner. He’d always be in his recliner, too, and together, recliner to recliner, we’d hash out the latest threat confronting Blue Ribbon.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog

“If my life was to be all work no play, I wanted my work to be play.”
― Phil Knight, Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike