Dr Coyle Quotes & Sayings

If your expectations are always those of someone content to live without physical challenge, then when it comes time for mental, moral, or emotional challenge you fail to meet it because you are out of practice. Meeting and overcoming obstacles are skills that can be honed, as opposed to talents with which we are born. The best way to prepare for the inevitable shit that life occasionally hands us all is to live in a way that prepares you for it. If you can treat personal tragedy like a heavy set of 20 squats, you'll do better than someone who has never met any challenge. Intentionally placing yourself in the position of having to complete a task when you don't know if you can is the single best way of preparing to be in that position unintentionally. — Mark Rippetoe

Hear that quiet, man?' he said. 'That quiet - just listen. There's your moral. — Tim O'Brien

It looks better when you do your own stunts, because seeing somebody's face when they're doing them is fun for the audience. — Adrianne Palicki

Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness. — W. Eugene Smith

E-books are preferable to paper; they can be delivered instantly. In many cases, they're cheaper; you can buy them with the press of a button. — J.A. Konrath

Life has a way of taking you past your wants and hopes. Instead, it drops you in front of what you need. — Shannon L. Alder

When you do a lot of acting your entire life, you see the entire set from one point of view. To have a chance to step back and pull it all together is really exciting. You want to do it all; you want to have a hand in everything. — Danica McKellar

I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before, you explore things, and generally you meet experts in lots of fields and you get to absorb that information and make it look like you've done it for 20 years. — Kieran Bew

Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them. — Plato

I am empowered but have no power to compel anyone to do anything — Kazeem Olalekan

Random numbers should not be generated with a method chosen at random — Donald Knuth

Next time there would be no mercy. He looked round fiercely, daring them to contradict. — William Golding

Faith in reason was the foundation stone of the United States. — Anthony Lewis

Every time we receive, we are given a glimpse of divine love, whoever that love happens to be acting through at that moment. — Deepak Chopra

I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this. — Lionel Shriver