"We run when we're scared, we run when……" — Christopher McDougall
"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."
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59 Quotes by Christopher McDougall
Christopher McDougall has 59 quotes on this site.
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The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other... but to be with each other.
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That was the real secret of the Tarahumara: they'd never forgotten what it felt like to love running. They remembered…
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Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about…
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The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a…
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Faced with the almost inescapable conclusion that it had been selling lemons, Nike shifted into make-lemonade mode. Jeff Pisciotta became…
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We were born to run; we were born because we run.
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If you can run six miles on a summer day, then you, my friend, are a lethal weapon in the…
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The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
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Were designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. Whats built into that kind of running…
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Anyone can do running. Running should be easy. It should be fun. It should include everyone. It shouldn't be a…
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There is a growing subculture of barefoot runners, people who got rid of their shoes. And what they have found…
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We are the biggest sissies in the jungle. Every other animal is stronger than we are - they have fangs,…
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More Ecstatic Quotes
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I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
— Neil Armstrong
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I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but…
— Tom Baker
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to…
— Fiona Apple
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The perfect mystic is not an ecstatic devotee lost in contemplation of Oneness, nor a saintly recluse shunning all commerce…
— Unknown Author
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If your heart takes more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies, or talking to…
— Keith Green
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Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters,…
— Jimmy Doolittle
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all.
— H. L. Mencken
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You simply pour, it will come. And if it is not coming, nothing to be worried about - because a…
— Rajneesh
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If you become too sceptical, you become scientists. If you become too childlike, you become religious. Science exists with doubt.…
— Rajneesh
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Their minds sang with the ecstatic knowledge that either what they were doing was completely and utterly and totally impossible…
— Douglas Adams
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Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That`s exactly the meaning of the…
— Rajneesh
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic,…
— Albert Hofmann
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