"Being in shape was not my goal. My……" — Stefan Kieszling

"Being in shape was not my goal. My body was a tool to test the capabilities of my will."

— Stefan Kieszling

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14 Quotes by Stefan Kieszling

Stefan Kieszling has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.
We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and…
Once one has attained a high level of success at any pursuit and especially an unorthodox pursuit like rowing, one…
Those of us who stayed were younger, more tractable. Less sure of ourselves socially and intellectually, we gave ourselves to…
The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile…
Although it takes a long warm-up for an eight to swing, on an erg such subtleties don't matter. For me…
[Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to…
Hundreds of feet above us, cars whisked by, oblivious to our drama. Up there were the shortcuts, the excuses, the…
Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing…
For two months after Christmas vacation we limped around campus with muscles too tigh and sore to walk properly, yet…
As a competitor, winner or loser, one crosses the line into limbo. The adrenaline is gone, the anticipation is gone.…
That morning each of us found a breaking point. Not only a physical barrier, but a point where determination, stamina…

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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