Nothing gives a person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thoughts
Our life is what our thoughts make it.
Schooling
“It were as well to be educated in the shadow of a mountain as in more classic shade. Some will remember, no doubt, not only that they went to college, but that they went to the mountain.”
Henry David Thoreau
Vision
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their grey visions they obtain glimpses of eternity.
On Happenstance and Serendipity
Another example in my ocassional series of British luminaries of the past who seemed to understand ultramarathons very well…
“Objective considerations … compel the conclusion that success or failure in competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account.” George Orwell
Multi-tasking
The shorter way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.