Joe De Sena quotes
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“Bite off more than you can chew, then keep chewing.”
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“It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling.”
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“The way to get through anything mentally painful is to take it a little at a time. The mind can't handle dealing with a massive iceberg of pain in front of it, but it can deal with short nuggets that will come to an end. So instead of thinking, Ugh, I've got twenty-four miles to go, focus on making it to the next telephone pole in the distance. Whether you're running twenty or one hundred and twenty miles at a time, the distance has to be tackled mentally and physically one mile at a time. The ability to compartmentalize pain into these small bite sizes is key.”
-- Joe De SenaSource : Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
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“The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.”
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“You can either go to bed satisfied with your efforts today or stressed with what you left for tomorrow. You can either work hard to take on the hill or never know what it is that people see at the top.”
-- Joe De SenaSource : Joe De Sena, Jeff O'Connell (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.96, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Death is the price we pay for life, so make it worth it.”
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“It's not that we're trying to avoid death; we're trying to enjoy our lives fully, to wring every wonderful drop out of life that we possibly can.”
-- Joe De SenaSource : Joe De Sena (2014). “Spartan Up!: A Take-No-Prisoners Guide to Overcoming Obstacles and Achieving Peak Performance in Life”, p.130, Simon and Schuster
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“I just want to make pictures that are entertaining. I'll leave the scenery chewing to someone else”
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“Chewing transforms even toxins into nutritive substances.”
Source : "Essential Ohsawa: From Food to Health, Happiness to Freedom - Understanding the Basics of Macrobiotics". Book edited by Carl Ferré and Herman Aihara, p. 97, 1994.
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“There's nothing like biting off more than you can chew, and then chewing anyway.”
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“There's nothing worse than seeing someone chewing gum on the red carpet!”