Relays Quotes

• History is a relay of revolutions.

  Saul Alinsky

  Revolution

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals”, p.22, Vintage

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• This is why relays are so important, because you can find more in yourself for someone else, than what you can ever find for yourself.

  Ian Thorpe

  Important

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• Life isn't a race. It's a relay.

  Dick Gregory

  Race

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• I love the relays. Track is such an individual sport, so it's fun to do something together.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Fun, Track

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• Nothing is born of nothing, least of all knowledge, modernity, or enlightened thought; progress is made in tiny surges, in successive laps, like an endless relay race. But there are links without which nothing would be passed on, and for that reason, they deserve the gratitude of all who benefited from them.

  Amin Maalouf

  Gratitude, Race, Progress

  Amin Maalouf (2008). “Origins: A Memoir”, p.412, Macmillan

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• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  Lakshmi Mittal

  Motivational, Giving Up, Commitment

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• These are the days in which a true leader wants to live. These are days when opportunities to change lives and even destinies are nearly endless. You are running the anchor leg of the relay because you were born to lead. You were born for glory.

  Sheri L. Dew

  Running, Life Changing, Opportunity

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• I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing, we may one day exchange information with these sentient cellular networks. Because these externalized neurological nets sense any impression upon them, from footsteps to falling tree branches, they could relay enormous amounts of data regarding the movements of all organisms through the landscape.

  Paul Stamets

  Fall, Data, Tree

  Paul Stamets (2011). “Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World”, p.31, Ten Speed Press

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• Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.

  Christine Caine

  Christian, Team, Race

  FaceBook post by Christine Caine from Dec 27, 2015

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• God intended motherhood to be a relay race. Each generation would pass the baton on to the next.

  Mary Pride

  Daughter, Mother, Race

  Mary Pride (1985). “The Way Home: Beyond Feminism, Back to Reality”, Good News Pub

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• We are all teachers, or should be. Anyone who relays experience to another person is a teacher. Not to transmit your experience is to betray it.

  Elie Wiesel

  Success, Teacher, Teaching

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• All of you are aware of the journey I've taken this past year and I just want to relay to all of the people that sent along their prayers and well wishes, my heartfelt thanks. It was truly overwhelming to me and my family the outpouring that we received from the Twin Cities community and from across the Midwest.

  Fred Hoiberg

  Prayer, Taken, Past

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• For this relay there was a little more pressure because it's the 200, you have to make sure you swim it smart. The 100 was more about energy.

  Michelle Williams

  Smart, Swimming, Energy

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• Rihanna, Beyonce and Nicki Minaj - we may not win, but we would have a lot of fun [in 4x400m relay team].

  Usain Bolt

  Fun, Team, Winning

  "Usain Bolt Reveals His Fantasy Relay Team & When He’s Hanging up His Spikes". Interview with Aaron Howes, www.highsnobiety.com. August 15, 2016.

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• Successful innovation is not a single breakthrough. It is not a sprint. It is not an event for the solo runner. Successful innovation is a team sport, it's a relay race.

  Nguyen Quyen

  Sports, Motivation, Team

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• In the end, the American dream is not a sprint, or even a marathon, but a relay. Our families don't always cross the finish line in the span of one generation. But each generation passes on to the next the fruits of their labor.

  Julian Castro

  Dream, Generations, Lines

  "Michelle Obama makes the political and personal case for four more years" by Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. September 5, 2012.

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• In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Creativity, Race

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• I see History as a relay race in which one of us, before dropping in his tracks, must carry one stage further the challenge of being a man.

  Romain Gary

  Men, Race, Track

  Romain Gary (1961). “PROMISE AT DAWN”

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• Smartphones can relay patients' data to hospital computers in a continuous stream. Doctors can alter treatment regimens remotely, instead of making patients come in for a visit.

  Charles C. Mann

  Doctors, Smartphones, Data

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• I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

  Gail Carriger

  Gossip, Observation, Relay Races

  Gail Carriger (2012). “Timeless: Book 5 of The Parasol Protectorate”, p.15, Hachette UK

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• Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.... Humanity is in 'final exam' as to whether or not it qualifies for continuance in Universe.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Race, Humanity, Finals

  "Critical Path". Book by Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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• Think of it. We are blessed with technology that would be indescribable to our forefathers. We have the wherewithal, the know-it-all to feed everybody, clothe everybody, and give every human on Earth a chance. We know now what we could never have known before - that we now have the option for all humanity to make it successfully on this planet in this lifetime. Whether it is to be Utopia or Oblivion will be a touch-and-go relay race right up to the final moment.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Blessed, Thinking, Technology

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• Our lives preserved. How it was; and how it be. Passing it along in the relay. That is what I work to do: to produce stories that save our lives.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Life, Work, Stories

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• In philosophy, you have to reckon with the implicit level of an accumulated reserve, and thus with a very great number of relays, with the shared responsibility of these relays.

  Jacques Derrida

  Philosophy, Responsibility, Numbers

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• It's really important for me to get across to our fans that whenever I put myself in different circumstances. It is to learn from it so I can relay it to others.

  Marilyn Manson

  Important, Fans, Different

  Circus Magazine, January 1997.

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