Quadrennial Quotes & Sayings

Once in a while, when I was younger, I'd lie, then tell the truth, and I'd feel better. — Tyler Hamilton

Buffett and Munger joke that envy is the only one of the seven deadly sins that isn't any fun. "Envy is crazy," remarks Munger. "It's 100 percent destructive. . . . If you get those things out of your life early, life works a lot better. — Guy Spier

We are moving people from welfare to work. On welfare, we launch a quiet revolution. — William J. Clinton

A cold feeling crept over me, as if there actually was a right or wrong answer to the question. In English class, there were no right or wrong answers as long as you could find evidence to back up your opinion. — Kami Garcia

+"I'm sick in the heart."~Hamlet — William Shakespeare

Some children do what they're told to do; some children do what they're told not to do; all children do what they're parents have done. — Iyanla Vanzant

The cyclicality of hard alternating with easy plays out not only in the day and the week but also across training cycles and even across years. Think of Olympians who take an easy year or two in their quadrennial cycles. Check that there is variety across your training at every level, from the cooldown after a hard workout to the easier year after a particularly tough season. Active recovery, both in easy workouts and in easy days, introduces variability to training. Remember Carl Foster's finding, outlined in Chapter 4, that athletes can adapt better to a greater overall training stress when it is variable instead of monotonous. Make the easy days really easy so that the hard days can be truly hard. If you can rein in your effort on your easy days, you'll have room to push a little faster or a little longer on your hard days, yielding a much bigger fitness reward than simply muddling through with easy days that are too hard and hard days that therefore become too slow or short. — Rountree Sage

Writing fiction is a good way to inhabit other minds, if not other lives. — Sheila Heti

The Olympic Games are not just ordinary world championships but a quadrennial festival of universal youth ... celebrated by each succeeding generation as it arrives on the threshold of adulthood. — Pierre De Coubertin

I think that the worst form of naivete can be extreme cynicism. If you think that nobody comes to Washington to do any good whatsoever, that is almost as bad as being starry-eyed and thinking that they are all here to advance democracy. — Thomas Mallon

I'm not great at multi-tasking, so when I do one thing ... I like to do it 100%. — Idina Menzel

Cake is the only thing that matters. — Allie Brosh

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity. — Pierre De Coubertin

I didn't do anything wrong and I promise to never do it again. — Richard M. Nixon