lesson learnt

"Everything unpleasant is developmental.""Kaikki vittumainen kehittää." translated from a Finnish expression by MAPP reader Mika Salkola

-- i needed this. i.need.to.be.a.better.worker. --

along with it, i also found a wealth of really neat quotes : here goes :

"People are able to wonder at the height of mountains, and the huge waves of the sea, the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and then pass by themselves without wondering at all."St. Augustine

"If not you, who? If not now, when?"Garry Herbert - 1992 Olympic 2+ rowing Finalist (probably not the first guy to say this)

"If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations."Scott Tinley


"When all you have is no chance, you still have that"unknown

"The view from the summit is worth the effort"unknown

"We run, not because we think it is doing us good, but because we enjoy it and cannot help ourselves. The more restricted our society and work become, the more necessary it will be to find some outlet for this craving for freedom. No one can say, 'You must not run faster than this, or jump higher than that.' The human spirit is indomitable."Sir Roger Bannister (hint: under 4 minutes)

"DO or DO NOT. There is no 'Try'"Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)


"Sweet is Pleasure after Pain"Dirigo Rowing Shell advertisement


"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."Hector Berliaz


"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."Albert Einstein

"A certain amount of opposition can be of great help to a man- Kites rise against, not with the wind."John Neal

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." Sir George Picketing, often quoted by Albert Einstein

"Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his
so-called scientific knowledge. Remedies from chemicals will never stand
in favour compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the
plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all
life."T. A. Edison


"Man cannot discover new oceans until he has the courage to lose the
sight of land." Unknown


"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn." The Doors

"You were made to soar, to crash to earth, then to rise and soar again" (Alfred Wainwright - perhaps Britain's best known writer of guide books for hillwalkers)

"Show me a man who never failed and I'll show you a man who never tried anything hard enough" Allen Waimsley, a fell runner from England thinks this is his, but admits he may have read it somewhere


"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence." Vince Lombardi

"The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena; whose face is marred by sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotion, spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement; and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never tasted victory or defeat."Theodore Roosevelt

"There will come a point in the race, when you alone will need to decide. You will need to make a choice. Do you really want it? You will need to decide."Rolf Arands


"Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last. "Chinese Proverb

"That which we achieve too easily, we esteem too lightly "Thomas Paine


"I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stilled by dry rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in a significant glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist...."Jack London


"The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part, the important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The essential thing is not to have conquered but to have fought well. To spread these precepts is to build up a stronger and more valiant and, above all, more scrupulous and more generous humanity."Pierre De Coubertin

"Youth passes, but immaturity can last a lifetime."unknown


"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure . . . than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."Theodore Roosevelt


"It is that little bit of insanity that keeps us all sane."MAPP reader Kevin Cunningham