Ultras Quotes

• Fear is a big reason. Ultra achievers don't have an attitude for overcoming fear. They just do it anyway, because they're okay with being afraid. Instead of putting energy into reducing fear, they confront it with action.

  Rory Vaden

  Attitude, Overcoming, Energy

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• I started running ultras to become a better person.

  Jenn Shelton

  Running, Better Person, Persons

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• Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Vanity, Modesty, Sometimes

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.1

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• The real competition is against the little voice inside you that wants to quit

  George A. Sheehan

  Running, Real, Voice

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• If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.

  Yogi Berra

  God, Running, Worry

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  But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

  Robert Frost

  Love, Inspirational, Tattoo

  "Stopping byWoods on a Snowy Evening" l. 13 (1923)

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• It hurts up to a point and then it doesn't get any worse.

  Ann Trason

  Inspirational, Running, Hurt

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• Ultra high speed slow mo.

  Jon Gruden

  Football, Speed, High Speed

  "8 Ridiculous Things Jon Gruden Said On Monday Night Football" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 29, 2013.

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• We (ultra runners) alternate between depression and stupidity.

  Don Kardong

  Stupidity, Runners

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• I'm not anxious to starve myself. For me, it's not at all sexy to be ultra-thin.

  Scarlett Johansson

  Sexy, Anxious

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• Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.

  Christopher McDougall

  Inspirational, Motivational, Running

  Christopher McDougall (2010). “Born to Run: The hidden tribe, the ultra-runners, and the greatest race the world has never seen”, p.13, Profile Books

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• I don't see myself as conservative, but I'm not ultra-leftist. You build a philosophy of your own. I like the libertarian view, which is to leave everyone alone. Even as a kid, I was annoyed by people who wanted to tell everyone how to live.

  Clint Eastwood

  Philosophy, Kids, Views

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• I don't need to prove I'm an adult by being ultra-sexy that's immature

  Aly Michalka

  Sexy, Immature, Adults

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• I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Morning, Believe, Science

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• Modern Orthodoxy has a highly positive attitude toward the State of Israel. Our Ultra-Orthodox brethren recognize only the Holy Land, but not the state.

  Norman Lamm

  Attitude, Israel, Land

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• The ne plus ultra of wickedness ... is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity.

  John Stuart Mill

  Religious, Evil, Religion

  "Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography".

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• Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all other qualities. It is the ne plus ultra of the intelligence.

  Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

  Quality, Fundamentals, Taste

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• I started running ultras to become a better person. I thought if you could run 100 miles you'd be in this Zen state. You'd be the Buddha, bringing peace and a smile to the world. It didn't work in my case. I'm the same old punk-ass as before, but there's always hope.

  Jenn Shelton

  Running, World, Ass

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• Things like social media and the Internet, of course, it's not going away. There is no cure for it. And this shouldn't be just like there shouldn't be, you know - it would have been a tragedy if there was a cure for the printing press. I think it's just that it's an amazing tool that we as a - as an animal are just getting to grips with because it's like we've grown a new ultra powerful limb and we're learning how to use it.

  Charlie Brooker

  Powerful, Thinking, Animal

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What you ride and how you choose to ride is such a dynamic part of what this contest [ Ultra Natural] is built for.

  Travis Rice

  Natural, Contests, You Choose

  Source: snowboarding.transworld.net

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• Kaplan can't understand trivialities. The triviality here is that nobody except the ultra right-wing jingoists like Kaplan are comparing atrocities by various countries. What honest people are saying seems to be incomprehensible: that we should keep to the elementary moral level of the gospels. We should pay attention to our own crimes and stop committing them. This would be true even if we were killing one person, OK? And it's even more true when we're killing millions of people.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Wings, People

  "Noam Chomsky On the Middle East and the US War on Terrorism". "Hot Type" with Evan Solomon, dissidentvoice.org. April 16, 2002.

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• I play a lot of ultra-violent video games.

  Cory Monteith

  Games, Play, Video

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no contradiction between technology and spirit. There is no contradiction between the search for intellectual integration and understanding and the psychedelic experience. There is no contradiction between ultra-advanced hyperspacial cyber culture and Paleolithic archaic culture. We have come to the end of our sojourn in matter. We have come to the end of our separateness.

  Terence McKenna

  Technology, Understanding, Intellectual

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• Resistance to improvement contradicts the noblest instincts of the race. It begets its opposite. The fanaticism of reform is only the raging of the accumulated waters caused by the obstructions which an ultra conservatism has thrown across the stream of progress; and revolution itself is but the sudden overwhelming and sweeping away of impediments that should have been seasonably removed.

  Horace Mann

  Should Have, Opposites, Race

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• Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

  Ray Kurzweil

  Light, Technological Change, Profound

  "Want to impress your friends? Tell them internet growth is sigmoidal, not exponential" by Charles Arthur, www.theguardian.com. November 26, 2007.

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