William Gerhardie quotes

“There are as many fools at a university as anywhere? But their folly,I admit, has a certain stampthe stamp of university training, if you like. It is trained folly.”
-- William Gerhardie

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.7.

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“We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.”
-- William Gerhardie

Source : 1925 Polyglots, ch.14.

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“If a book is worth reading at all, it is worth reading more than once. Suspense is the lowest of excitants, designed to take your breath away when the brain and heart crave to linger in nobler enjoyment. Suspense drags you on; appreciation causes you to linger.”
-- William Gerhardie

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“Shooting is 99 per cent luck and one per cent training”

“And I think that still is true of this business - which is basically research and development - that you probably spend more time in planning and training and designing for things to go wrong, and how you cope with them, than you do for things to go right.”

“Early in my career I was accused of being overconfident and even cocky, but I really was confident that I had done the training and didn't see any other reason to say otherwise.”

“I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.”

Source : Interview with Amby Burfoot, www.runnersworld.com. April 8, 2012.

“There are only two excuses you can use for missing rugby training - death and docking!”

“He who represents himself has a fool for a client”

“The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.”

“The challenge is to learn to respond immediately to whatever it is time for. Not to wonder whether you have time for it or whether you like it, but simply to respond when it is time.”

“My trade is a lonely one. I'm a craftsman, if you like. It so happens that these days singers are better paid than blacksmiths.”

Source : "Character: Jacques Brel". "Nous les artistes: Jacques Brel", www.imdb.com. 1979.

“You shall love. Whether you like it or not.”

Source : "Fictional character: Father Quintana". "To the Wonder", www.imdb.com. 2012.