shoe dog序言摘抄

精读了shoe dog序言，前后读了三遍。以下为好句摘抄。motivational and inspired~常读常新

1.Our character, our fate—our DNA. The cowards never started.

2.I savored that first physical awakening, that brilliant moment before the mind is fully clear, when the limbs and joints first begin toloosen and the material body starts to melt away. Solid to liquid.

3.My résumé said I was a learned, accomplished soldier, a twenty-four-year-old manin full . . .So why,I wondered, why do I still feel like a kid?

4.These were the goals I was taught to aspire to, and part of me did aspire to them,instinctively. But deep down I was searching for something else, something more. I had an aching sense that our time is short, shorter than we ever know, short as a morning run, and I wanted mine to be meaningful. And purposeful. And creative. And impor­tant. Above all . . . different.

5.At different times I’d fantasized about becoming a great novelist, a great journalist, a great statesman. But the ultimate dream was always to be a great athlete. Sadly, fate had made me good, not great. At twenty-four I was finally resigned to that fact.

6.The world was so overrun with war and pain and misery, the daily grind was so exhausting and often unjust—maybe the only answer, I thought, was to find some prodigious, improbable dream that seemed worthy, that seemed fun,that seemed a good fit, and chase it with an athlete’s single-minded dedication and purpose. Like it or not, life is a game. 

7.Maybe my memory is enlarging this eureka moment, or condensing many eureka moments into one. 

8.I did decide that the world is made up of crazy ideas. History is one long processional of crazy ideas. The things I loved most—books, sports, democracy, free ­enterprise—started as crazy ideas.

9.For that matter, few ideas are as crazy as my favorite thing, running.It’s hard. It’s painful. It’s risky. The rewards are few and far from guaranteed.When you run around an oval track, or down an empty road, you have no real destination. At least, none that can fully justify the effort. The act itself becomes the destination. It’s not just that there’s no finish line;it’s that you define the finish line. Whatever pleasures or gains you derive from the act of running, you must find them within. It’s all in how you frame it, how you sell it to yourself.

10.Don’t stop. Don’t even think about stopping until you get there, and don’t give much thought to where“there” is. Whatever comes, just don’t stop.