Pace Yourself Quotes

• Life is a marathon, not a sprint; pace yourself accordingly.

  Amby Burfoot

  Life, Running, Track And Field

  Amby Burfoot (2000). “The Runner's Guide to the Meaning of Life: What 35 Years of Running Have Taught Me About Winning, Losing, Happiness, Humility, and the Human Heart”, p.15, Rodale

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• You must always be yourself, and do things at your own pace. Someday, you'll catch up.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Being Yourself, Pace, Someday

  "Fruits Basket". Manga by Natsuki Takaya, 1998 - 2006.

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• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Patience

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1883). “Emerson's complete works [ed. by J.E. Cabot]. Riverside ed”

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• Once you've committed yourself to something, pace yourself to the finish line.

  Meb Keflezighi

  Running, Pace, Lines

  Meb Keflezighi, Dick Patrick, Joan Benoit Samuelson (2010). “Run to Overcome: The Inspiring Story of an American Champion's Long-distance Quest to Achieve a Big Dream”, p.5, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Success, Music, Forgiveness

  Walden ch. 18 (1854). Frequently quoted as "marches to the tune of a different drummer."

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• Pace yourself, pace yourself, pace yourself. And take time to rest. I guess if you don't rest and rejuvenate, then you harden, and I don't want to harden.

  Haley Bennett

  Pace, Want, Take Time

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Life on the road is very different from a normal, day to day life, and sometimes that surrealistic existence can have an effect on you, you tend to forget that's not really how things are supposed to be. But there comes a point where you have to pace yourself and find a place in your mind where you can be real.

  Joe Nichols

  Real, Mind, Different

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• I really do believe that chance favours a prepared mind. Wallace Stegner, who was one of my teachers when I was at Stanford, preached that writing a novel is not something that can be done in a sprint. That it's a marathon. You have to pace yourself. He himself wrote two pages every day and gave himself a day off at Christmas. His argument was at the end of a year, no matter what, you'd got 700 pages and that there's got to be something worth keeping.

  Scott Turow

  Teacher, Believe, Writing

  "'To hell with Perry Mason'". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. November 24, 2002.

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• I advise all the young kids to not overwork. You can't be out there blowing hard. You have to pace yourself.

  Freddie Hubbard

  Kids, Pace, Young

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• A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.

  Tate Donovan

  Running, Distance, Careers

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• I think [song 'Can't Stop Workin'] it's the constant work; performing and traveling. It gets to be a bit of a strain. But if you pace yourself, which I've managed to do, you can go pretty well.

  Neil Young

  Song, Thinking, Pace

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• Pace yourself in your reading. A little bit every day really adds up. If you read during sporadic reading jags, the fits and starts will not get you anywhere close to the amount of reading you will need to do. It is far better to walk a mile a day than to run five miles every other month. Make time for reading, and make a daily habit of it, even if it is a relatively small daily habit.

  Douglas Wilson

  Running, Reading, Add

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• I dont ever want to do anything mediocre. I hear the music in the charts and I dont mean to be rude, but those people have no soul. Learning from music is like eating a meal - you have to pace yourself. You cant take everything from it all at once. I want to be different, definitely. Im not a one trick pony. Im at least a five-trick pony.

  Amy Winehouse

  Mean, People, Rude

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• The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up.

  Iman Abdulmajid

  Children, Giving Up, Pace

  Source: us.hellomagazine.com

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• Your freedom as a writer is not freedom of expression in the sense of wild blurting; you may not let rip. It is life at its most free, if you are fortunate enough to be able to try it, because you select your materials, invent your task, and pace yourself.

  Annie Dillard

  Rip, Expression, Trying

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• TV is a completely different discipline, which I think I am still learning about. You just have to learn how to work fast and pace yourself.

  Rose Byrne

  Thinking, Discipline, Different

  "Knowing feature – Rose Byrne". Tribute Interview, www.tribute.ca. March 1, 2009.

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• Its better to pace yourself throughout a big day like Thanksgiving by having something healthful for breakfast and something light for lunch.

  Marilu Henner

  Thanksgiving, Light, Lunch

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