Kathryn Minshew

As you move through the application process, keep refining the way you present yourself. Like any skill, you'll only get better with practice, and you'll only hurt yourself if you get discouraged too early. This is one race that's definitely a marathon, not a sprint.

American Businesswoman

Mark-Paul Gosselaar

Road racing at the moment because it's still so new to me. I like the fact that they are longer and teamwork is important. I guess the same is true for track, it's just that I have used track this year as a training device to improve my sprinting in road racing.

American Actor

Lauren Gibbs

A combine is a series of athletic tasks that help a coaching staff measure an athlete's ability to be competitive in a sport. A bobsled combine requires a sprint, broad jump, two-handed shot toss, and a back squat and power clean.

American Athlete

Freddie Wong

We always said that directors work their whole lives to get final cut on a movie. We have that. So why would you want to run away from what every other director is sprinting toward their entire careers?

American Director

Gretchen Bleiler

There will always be another email to get through; something to clean up, file, and organize; more errands to do. Which is why balance is so important. Life is a marathon, not a sprint.

Mohsin Hamid

Novel writing is the slowest art form in the world. It is not a sprint. It is not even a marathon. It is a series of marathons that stretch over and over across a continent.

Pakistani Writer

Joel Benenson

I understand that people in the media want this to be a sprint every day, but the truth is a presidential campaign is a marathon.

American Public Servant

Emily Deschanel

I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.

American Actress

Ivanka Trump

Life is a marathon, not a sprint. It's about taking a bigger-picture approach.

Angela Duckworth

Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

American Psychologist

Used to describe fast, energetic races in sports, especially track and field events.

Athletic Term

Emphasizes the brief amount of time a sprint lasts, usually just a few seconds or minutes.

Short Duration

Highlights effort over a short stretch rather than a longer, paced run.

Intensity Over Distance

Often implies a sudden burst of speed in response to an urgent need.

Immediate Action

In business, 'sprint' is used metaphorically to describe focused, teamwork-driven work periods.

Project Management

Sprints in business often have strict deadlines, leading to a concentrated effort.

Time-Sensitive Work

Describes when workers band together for a short, productive work session.

Intense Collaboration

Sprinting in work implies using time efficiently, without distractions.

Efficiency Focus

 left by my top surgery. Scars that run from the middle of my chest all the way out to my outer torso. She said that these were reminders of my strength and everything that I went through and nothing for me to be ashamed of. So sprinting towards her hand in marriage was the queerest thing that I could do.

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 sometimes that's not realistic. But it can be a few moments here and there to check in with yourself. Think of life like a race like a long-distance race. If you sprint in the very beginning you're going to get burnt out. You may even hurt yourself from pushing too hard. But if you pace yourself,

Why students should have...

 At the time, the legs I presented were groundbreaking in prosthetics. I had woven carbon fiber sprinting legs modeled after the hind leg of a cheetah, which you may have seen on stage yesterday. And also these very life-like, intrinsically painted silicone legs.

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 to the fact that great whites can sprint through the water it speeds up to 43 miles per hour and it's no wonder we're afraid of sharks but should we be I mean let's face it they have great vision they're curious like cats and they love

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 and we can rise to it by learning something which is sometimes painful. Learning patience, for instance. We have been told that the road to peace is not a sprint, but is more like a marathon. That takes patience. That's difficult.

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 Grit is sticking with your future, day in, day out, not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years, and working really hard to make that future a reality. Grit is living life like it's a marathon, not a sprint.

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 He didn't find it as humorous as I did, anyway. OK, now, these are my sprinting legs, made of carbon graphite, like I said, and I've got to make sure I've got the right socket. No, I've got so many legs in here.

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 to smaller regional races, we've seen that people want to run for a better future. After all, peacemaking is not a sprint. It is more of a marathon. Thank you.

Making peace is a...

 If humans could fly, without tools and machines, how fast do you think we would go? As of 2012, the world record for fastest short-distance sprint speed

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 Cheetahs specialise in hunting at speed. Though fast, they are fragile creatures, built to sprint after small prey.