Education Quote by Lance Armstrong

“You can teach someone how to control their strength, but you can't teach them to be strong.”

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I raced because I was paid to do a job and I felt like I had to do the job. Number two: I raced…

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Regardless of one victory, two victories, four victories, there's never been a victory by a cancer survivor. That's a fact that hopefully I'll be…

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Average is Your Enemy.

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Hard work, sacrifice and focus will never show up in tests.

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Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

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Evan Handler is a man who’s looked into the abyss and laughed. His book, It’s Only Temporary, made me laugh along with him. He…

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My cocktail, so to speak, was only EPO, but not a lot, transfusions and testosterone.

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I love this race from the very depths of my heart. It gives me motivation and it transcendsme like nothing else in the world.

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Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

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I spent a long time trying to build up an organisation [the Lance Armstrong Foundation that changed its name to Livestrong after his confession]…

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A bicycle is the long-sought means of transportation for all of us who have runaway hearts.

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You know what they say, the high trees get the wind.

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I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial…

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For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow…

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Where I grew up, learning was a collective activity. But when I got to school and tried to share learning with other students that…

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There's no authoritarian structure at Reed College, but the education is conservative. So what you have is a lot of students who are very…

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“What's the best thing about being in college? Good teachers. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even…

Nicholas Sparks

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“If one has not a head of steel it will burst; if he has not within it a brain of liquid quicksilver, he will not obtain in it a looking-glass; if he has not a skin of tin he will not be able to endure the toil of education; if he has not leaden posteriors he will not be able…

Ioannes Amos Commenius

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”

H.D. (Hilda Doolittle

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“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the solitude and the terror of failure, and the godawful silence and the white paper. And now that I can take it . . . now that I can finally do it . . . I'm really…

Erica Jong