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Any young person who comes to see me, I say, 'Look, forget about print. You gotta think in terms of getting going with websites and online and that sort of thing.'
Sep 10, 2025
Fun has to rule in a lot of scenarios. Occasionally, when you are really getting going, you need to stretch beyond language. It has to go out the window.
Not only is [a half marathon] a good test for the marathon, it is also good for those who feel they were just getting going in a 10K and are physically and mentally primed to go further. A half marathon is a good test of your endurance, without the physical punishment of going the full 26.2 miles. More so even than the 10K, it will teach you about patience, pacing, and how to negotiate a wider range of physical and emotional cycles.
When the going gets tough, the tough get a librarian.
When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
When the going gets tough, the tough go drinking.
When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.
When the going gets tough, the tough make cookies.
I think that you've got to be prepared to write a load of nonsense to start with and then you can tart it up. The business of getting going, getting started, is enormously important, and this can be physical. Solvitur Ambulando as the Romans used to say, which means the solution comes through walking.
Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.
I think it's pretty crazy to say you've been typecast at the age of 20 before you've even really started getting going.
When the going gets tough, the tough reinvent.
Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive.
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.
If you do not know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere
The secret of getting ahead is getting started
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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