Quotes - Alex (alexandremcorreia) (Tavira, Portugal) Showing 1-30 of 35

#1

“If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: productivity

#2

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible

tags: magic, science, technology, wonder

1760 likes

#3

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
― Michael Cunningham, The Hours

tags: life, peace

10248 likes

#4

“What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Survivor

474 likes

#5

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: life, simile

22497 likes

#6

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: encouragement, gandalf

11348 likes

#7

“You don't stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.”
― Christopher McDougall, Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

245 likes

#8

“Sane is boring.”
― R. A. Salvatore

tags: boring, crazy, forgotten-realms, funny, humor, jarlaxle, salvatore, sane, servant-of-the-shard

928 likes

#9

“I guess we always find excuses to keep on with our bad habits, don't we?”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

tags: habits

26 likes

#10

“Get busy living or get busy dying.”
― Stephen King, Different Seasons

tags: life

9511 likes

#11

“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
― Jim Ryun

tags: goals, habits

72 likes

#12

“A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.”
― Bruce Lee

tags: goals, vision

687 likes

#13

“The scariest moment is always just before you start.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

5144 likes

#14

“How many people long for that "past, simpler, and better world," I wonder, without ever recognizing the truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them?”
― R.A. Salvatore, Streams of Silver

tags: better, past, simper, truth, world

229 likes

#15

“Movement is the essence of life.”
― Bernd Heinrich

tags: inspirational, running

29 likes

#16

“Cooking is not a mystery.”
― Edward Espe Brown, Tassajara Cooking

tags: culinary

4 likes

#17

“You only ever grow as a human being if you're outside your comfort zone.”
― Percy Cerutty

10 likes

#18

“Focusing is about saying No.”
― Steve Jobs

tags: focus

199 likes

#19

“The essential thing is to run period!
And to do it for a long time and consistently and then everything will take care of itself.”
― Bernd Heinrich

tags: running

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#20

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

tags: books, magic, reading

17574 likes

#21

“I thought there would be time, but we always think stuff like that, don't we? We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.”
― Stephen King, Duma Key

tags: living

8 likes

#22

“I did not become a runner to lose weight, I did it to escape my computer”
― The Oatmeal, The Terrible and Wonderful Reasons Why I Run Long Distances (Volume 5)

tags: humor, inspiration

8 likes

#23

“The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.”
― Gustave Flaubert

tags: guidance

350 likes

#24

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons

tags: read, readers, reading, reading-books

35635 likes

#25

“Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself.”
― Rupi Kaur, Milk and honey

1403 likes

#26

“You can't be careful on a skateboard.”
― Stephen King, It

118 likes

#27

“Like other animals, we play at those things that are important to our survival, and social play promotes social cohesion.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run: A Natural History

tags: social

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#28

“There may be no more compelling goal than a close one, but there is none more lasting than a distant one not yet attained.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run: A Natural History

tags: goals

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#29

“You don't get anywhere by magic, but only by putting in the required number of steps. (...) There is a truth, a beauty, and a symmetry in this that is inviolate. Every step counts. Each is an act of beauty. Together they create stride, and in terms of the whole, pace.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Why We Run: A Natural History

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#30

“Coffee is a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to your older self.”
― Terry Pratchett, Thud!

tags: coffee, humor

585 likes

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