Rob Eakin Triathlete

The Way I See It #10

"There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity."

-General Douglas MacArthur

The Way I See It #9

"At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: "I have to go to work-as a human being. What do I have to complain of, if I'm going to do what I was born for-the things I was brought into the world to do? Or is this what I was created for? To huddle under the blankets and stay warm?"

-But it's nicer here...

So you were born to feel "nice"? Instead of doing things and experiencing them? Don't you see the plants, the birds, the ant and spiders and bees going about their individual tasks, putting the world in order, as best they can? And you're not willing to do your job as a human being? Why aren't you running to do what your nature demands?

-But we have to sleep sometime...

Agreed. But nature set a limit on that-as it did on eating and drinking. And you're over the limit. You've had more than enough of that. But not of working. There you're still below your quota.

You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat. Do you have less respect for your nature than the engraver does for engraving, the dancer for dance, the miser for money or the social climber for status? When they're really possessed by what they do, they'd rather stop eating and sleeping that give up practicing their arts."

-Marcus Aurelius

The Way I See It #8

"A champion is someone who is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when no one else is watching."

- Anson Dorrance

The Way I See It #7

"A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for."

- Grace Murray Hopper

The Way I See It #6

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."

-Seneca

The Way I See It #5

"It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation."

-Dr. Rob Gilbert

The Way I See It #4

"I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something that I hate."

 -George Burns

The Way I See It #3

"The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things."

 -Georg Lichtenberg

The Way I See It #2

"Never at any stage, until we actually got up the rock step, was I confident we were going to be successful. In fact, I believe that if someone starts out on a challenging activity, completely confident that they are going to succeed, why bother starting? It's not much of a "challenge"."

-Sir Edmund Hillary (on being the first to climb Mt. Everest)

The Way I See It #1

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up.
It knows it must be faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up.
It knows it must out run the slowest gazelle or it will starve.
It doesn't matter if you are a lion or a gazelle.
When the sun comes up, you better start running.

-African Proverb