#ch

I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#against #always #been #conditions #factor

I used to run to school, 10k every day. And this at altitude, perfect preparation, really. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#day #every #every day #i #perfect

In the marathon a crazy athlete can just keep pushing from the beginning, at a championship you don't need a time just to win the race. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#beginning #championship #crazy #just #keep

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#commitment #discipline #everything #hard #hard work

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

#also #civic #each #exerts #formation

Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world. ↗

— Patrick Geddes

#civilized #civilized world #day #entire #every

I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#also #anthropology #been #central #field

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#anthropology #been #even #fairly #female

I was trained in the '50s as a New Critic. I remember what literature was like before the New Critics, when people stood up and talked about Shelley's soul and such things. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

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