March 2012
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A Few Words with Al Vermeil →
If you train, read this article. Most of Al’s quotes apply to not only athletes and team sports, but also average exercising individuals.
January 2012
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November 2011
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Sometimes it’s a very big challenge to out-think your emotions. And thus realize happiness when in a state of discontent.
How do you deal with it?
“Pizza is set to be classified as a vegetable for the purposes of school lunches...”
– Pizza is a vegetable! Congress set to keep slices on school lunch menus | Mail Online (via cliffharvey)
Way to go American corporate lobbyists. Keep making people fatter to line your pockets. GFY.
October 2011
18 posts
Time and Energy Pt 2
The ONLY true currencies are Energy and Time. Everything else is a fabrication of society based on the Human Condition (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_condition), designed to represent the two aforementioned. Every system requires an evolutionary process. This one is coming to a head pretty quick. Labour is human energy/time, valued at what the market will bear and not the true value...
Rant for the day (for now).
Online textbooks suck. E-books, acceptable. Online books ARGH! I’m going back to hard copies. A few extra bucks is worth the peace of mind.
September 2011
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Jitters!!
I’m high on caffeine in my Sports Nutrition class (sooooo rudimentary). I should not drink coffee. Especially in the afternoon. Or maybe I should drink it more regularly?
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“Good timber does not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the...”
– J. Willard Marriott (via courageofalion)
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“Modern education pays attention to the development of the brain and the...”
– Dalai Lama (via cwnl)
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
– Joseph Campbell (via stephyfullofgrace)
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“Wisdom is knowing in depth the great metaphors of meaning.”
– Carl Jung (via bannerword)
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“How easily we prescribe for others a cure for their difficulties, while we...”
– Thomas Jefferson to John Adams
Monticello, January 22, 1821
(via fuckyeahjefferson)
Whatsfnxl:
Take care of your sh!t first. Then you can give advice. Lead by example.
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“To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.”
– Bruce Lee (via courageofalion)
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Harvard Food Plate passes on Milk. →
theinformedvegan:
Harvard University nutritionists have decided to tweak the USDA’s new “My Plate” chart in a move that is sure to piss off the dairy industry.
In June, the USDA updated the old food pyramid and put out a healthy eating pie chart called “My Plate.” The chart depicted a relatively…
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“Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white...”
– Carl Sagan (via brandondahlberg)
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“I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been...”
– Sir Issac Newton (via thefameofhealth)
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“Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and...”
– Michael Jordon (via courageofalion)
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“There is no other species on the Earth that does science. It is, so far,...”
– Carl Sagan (via cultureofresistance)
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Adventures of a Realistic Optimist: Yet another... →
promotingpowerfulpeople:
Dead horse theory
The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation,
says that:
“When you discover that you are riding a dead horse,
the best strategy is to dismount.” However,
in government and education more advanced…
Whatsfnxl:
Hilarious. Because it’s mostly true.
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“To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you...”
– Theodore H. White (via courageofalion) 