“If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.” IfsWantRunningCoursesHoursFourCouplePlanesParisMealsUnexpectedDays Off Author:Ali Larter
“One of the things that I found very confronting in my early working life was that people thought I was some sensitive doe-eyed lovelorn boy, because they'd seen me do that a couple of times. What tends to happen is you get a run of similar roles.” PeopleDoeHappensRunningFoundBoysRolesCoupleSensitiveConfrontingWorking Life Author:Ben Mendelsohn
“One of my favorite programs that we didn't make is Rescue Time. It runs in the corner of my computer and tracks how much time I spend on different things. I realized that even though I was doing e-mail only a couple of minutes at a time, it was adding up to a couple of hours a day. So I'm trying to reduce that.” TryingDifferentRunningHoursMinutesCoupleComputerProgramMy FavoriteTrackCornersI RealizedDifferent ThingsMailRescue Author:Matt Mullenweg
“Spiritual growth is like learning to walk. We stand up, fall, stand up, fall, take a step, fall, take a couple of steps, fall, walk a little better, wobble a bit, fall, run, and finally, eventually fly.” LittlesRunningSpiritualFallBitsGrowthWalksStepsCoupleSpiritual Growth Book:Stumbling Toward Enlightenment Source: Stumbling Toward Enlightenment
“All Presidents start out to run a crusade but after a couple of years they find they are running something less heroic and much more intractable: namely the presidency. The people are well cured by then of election fever, during which they think they are choosing Moses. In the third year, they look on the man as a sinner and a bumble and begin to poke around for rumors of another Messiah.” PeopleThinkingMenYearsWellsLooksRunningPresidentHe ManCoupleThirdsElectionSinnerHeroicPresidencyRumorMosesFeverMessiahCrusadesPoke Author:Alistair Cooke
“To get ready to climb Everest, I did a lot of hill running with a daypack on and a lot of underwater swimming. I would swim a couple of lengths underwater and then a couple above. It gets your body going with limited oxygen.” BodyRunningReadyCoupleYour BodyHillsClimbsLengthSwimSwimmingOxygenEverestUnderwater Author:Bear Grylls