"If every day of your life you are……" — Mark Rippetoe
"If every day of your life you are told by authority figures that the Earth is flat, you will be scared of falling off the edge whether you want to be or not."
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47 Quotes by Mark Rippetoe
Mark Rippetoe has 47 quotes on this site.
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Since the trainee is both inefficient and unadapted, only a few basic exercises should be used, and they should be…
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Strong people are harder to kill than weak people and more useful in general.
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Mediocre athletes that tried like hell to get good are the best coaches.
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You are right to be wary. There is much bullshit. Be wary of me too, because I may be wrong.…
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There are no shortcuts. The fact that a shortcut is important to you means that you are a pussy.
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Trust me, if you do an honest 20 rep program, at some point Jesus will talk to you. On the…
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You do not need to do many different exercises to get strong - you need to get strong on a…
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A weak man is not as happy as that same man would be if he were strong. This reality is…
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There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved…
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Humans are not physically normal in the absence of hard physical effort.
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Physical strength is the most important thing in life. This is true whether we want it to be or not.
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Big arms are fun, and if their training doesn't interfere with the rest of the program, wait till everybody's gone,…
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More Authority Quotes
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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would…
— Hannah Arendt
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
— Francis Bacon
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
— Pearl Bailey
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The American press has the blues. Too many authorities have assured it that its days are numbered, too many good…
— Russell Baker
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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But I recognize no infallible authority, even in special questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
— John Adams
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I cannot stand authority.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under…
— Samuel Adams
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No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.
— Joseph Addison
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