Quotes about running
running kingdoms lots-of-money
You can make a lot of money. You can rule kingdoms or run huge businesses or control vast terrain. But if you're just doing it for yourself, you're not really a success. Tony Robbins
running heart health
It's not that diabetes, heart disease, and obesity runs in your family...It's that no one runs in you family! Tony Robbins
running office intellectual
Cabinet members are soon overwhelmed by the insistent demands of running their departments. On the whole, a period in high office consumers intellectual capital; it does not create it....The less ministers know at the outset, the more dependent they are on the only sources of available knowledge; the permanent officials. Tony Benn
running government cities
In Australia’s biggest cities, public transport is generally slow, expensive, not especially reliable and still hideous drain on the public purse. Part of the problem is inefficient, overmanned, union-dominated government run train and bus systems. Mostly though, …there just aren’t enough people wanting to go from a particular place to a particular destination at a particular time to justify any vehicle larger than a car, and cars need roads Tony Abbott
running
I'm not running for canonisation. Tony Abbott
running country europe
No country or continent can open its borders to all comers without fundamentally weakening itself and this is the risk that the countries of Europe run through misguided altruism. Tony Abbott
running government want
I want to run a government, Barnaby wants to be part of a government, which is characterized by the motto if you like, no surprises, no excuses. That will be the motto of an incoming Coalition government. No surprises, no excuses. Tony Abbott
running government people
Part of my role, I suppose, is to run government business in the House of Representatives, and try to ensure that people know exactly what's going on in the Chamber is an important part of that. Tony Abbott
running country jobs
The fact is that I'm interested in getting on with my job of holding the Government to account and I think that the Government should get on with the job of effectively running the country and not making excuses for poor performance, not lowering expectations. Their job is to deliver on their election commitments. Tony Abbott
running beach eye
Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if they thought our bow was about to run on to a beach. Screaming seabirds formed a bridge across the sky in the direction of the distant island, which stood out sharper against the horizon as the red background widened and turned gold with the approach of the sun and the full daylight. Thor Heyerdahl
running self-esteem character
Only individuals with an aberrant temperament can in the long run retain their self-esteem in the face of the disesteem of their fellows. Thorstein Veblen
running thinking careers
Early on in your career, find someone better than yourself to run the business on a day-to-day basis. Remove yourself, maybe even from the building, and from the nitty-gritty. That way, you're going to be able to see the bigger picture and think of new areas to go into. Richard Branson
running fighting order
I suspect in most companies, the public relations person is down at No. 20 in the pecking order. But here, he is fighting incredibly important battles. If a negative story starts running away with itself in the press and is not dealt with fast, it can badly damage the brand, and so we put enormous weight on our PR people. Richard Branson
running dream giving-up
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom. The glib supposition of utilizing atomic energy when our coal has run out is a completely unscientific Utopian dream, a childish bug-a-boo. Nature has introduced a few fool-proof devices into the great majority of elements that constitute the bulk of the world, and they have no energy to give up in the process of disintegration. Robert Andrews Millikan
running fear self-confidence
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire. Robert Anthony
running water stupidity
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! Robert A. Heinlein
running thinking self
The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. Robert A. Heinlein
running hands
Never own more than you can carry in both hands at a dead run. Robert A. Heinlein
running volunteer long
When the citizens of a nation will no longer volunteer to defend it, then it is probably not worth saving. No nation has the right to survive with conscript troops, and in the long run, no nation ever has. Robert A. Heinlein
running horse differences
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial. Robert A. Heinlein
running religion way
I've never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe. Robert A. Heinlein
running long cost
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless. Robert A. Heinlein
running children men
Our behavior is different. How often have you seen a headline like this?--TWO DIE ATTEMPTING RESCUE OF DROWNING CHILD. If a man gets lost in the mountains, hundreds will search and often two or three searchers are killed. But the next time somebody gets lost just as many volunteers turn out. Poor arithmetic, but very human. It runs through all our folklore, all human religions, all our literature--a racial conviction that when one human needs rescue, others should not count the price. Robert A. Heinlein
running arms
You do not truly own anything that you can't carry in both arms at a dead run Robert A. Heinlein
running zest giving
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life. Robert A. Heinlein
running frozen golden
Free will is a golden thread running through the frozen matrix of fixed events. Robert A. Heinlein
running responsibility government
Any government will work if authority and responsibility are equal and coordinate. This does not insure “good” government, it simply insures that it will work. But such governments are rare — most people want to run things, but want no part of the blame. This used to be called the “backseat driver” syndrome. Robert A. Heinlein
running nice book
I'm not the creative one. I know that. If Rory Storm hadn't come along... and then The Beatles... I would have continued running around in teddyboy gangs. Today, well... I'd probably be a laborer. I'm glad I'm not, of course. It'll be nice to be part of history... some sort of history anyway. What I'd like to be is in school history books and be read by kids. Ringo Starr
running night bed
Every night there's a moment that I just wanna go back to bed. I just get nervous. Then I run on (stage) and as soon as I grab the mic then I'm fine. Ringo Starr
running hands gigs
I'm nervous ahead of every gig. I feel like running away three seconds before I'm due on stage. But I'm all right as soon as I get the mic in my hand. Ringo Starr
running people
When I run on stage now, a thousand people don't even see you, they're in their phone. Ringo Starr
running tears cry
If I cry, it's because I'm very angry and I can't do anything about it because I've run into a dead end. That's when the tears would come down. Rihanna
running sweat people
POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover. Rick Bayan