Kennemer Dunes, today. Min/max temperature: 4°C/6 °C; humidity: 98%; precipitation: 9.0 mm, sea level pressure: 1016 hPa;  wind from West 26.1 km/h; visibility: 10.0 kilometers [raise to the opportunity]

"The spirit is crucial for peak-performance, realised [cyclist Piet] Moeskops, as he gained more and more experience. Leading up to the 1924 world championship in Paris, Moeskops said […]: The whole secret is, to break the power of your opponents. […] It is not about driving long and fast. […] The first year I already understood that. But I could not do it. A few years later, I still could not do it. I was not strong enough to do that. Runners reach their full potential around their thirties. [Before that] they can not do what they should be able to do. They just drive fast, [but] they do not drive psychologically. And they do not yet have the power to break their opponents, [and] also not the moral energy [to do that]."

Pieter Winsemius'Erop en erover, wat we kunnen leren van grote wielerkampioenen', page 38, 39, first published in 2015 by Prometheus, Bert Bakker, NL

"[The] student strengthens his mental muscles on an easy problem before moving on to a harder one. […] One might teach high-jumping with the same technique-setting the bar at a given height, inducing the student to jump, and moving the bar up or down as the outcome dictates. […] The good high-jumping coach is less concerned with whether the bars is cleared than with form or style. […] "To think" often means simply to behave. [The] environment will do the teaching."

B.F. Skinner 'The Technology of Teaching', page 118, 119, 153, first published in 1968 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., USA

"He, word es wakker, zootjen tuig (Hey, wake up, bunch of scumbags)
Wie doet 't niet slom, wie doet 't ruig (We are not slow, we are rough)
Verwacht van ons geen wondern, wie goat deurdonderen (Do not expect any miracles of us; we act without interruption)"

Bennie Jolink and Willem Terhorst, 'Deurdonderen', performed by Normaal, first published in 1982 by WEA records

Foredune, today. Path [ "Just passing through" ]

Min/max temperature: 5°C/7°C; humidity: 91%; precipitation: 0 mm, sea level pressure: 1026 hPa; wind from W 20.9 km/h; Clouds: overcast 60 m.; visibility: < 2.0  kilometres

"It is not so much the subjects one depict that create beauty; rather it is the need one has felt to represent them, and it is this need itself that gives one the strength to carry them off…. One might say that anything is beautiful, provided it is at the right place at the right time, and, conversely, that nothing is beautiful if it comes at the wrong time… Beauty is what is apt. […] What we call "composition" is the art of communicating our thoughts to others. […] A work should be all of a piece […] and people and things should be there for an end. I wish to say what is necessary plainly and strongly… and I confess to the greatest horror of superfluities (however brilliant) and of filling up. […] In my pictures of fields I see only two things: the sky and the ground, the two separated by the horizon, and imaginary lines, rising and falling, I built on that and the rest is either accidental or incidental. [ I intend ] to give man the principal role and landscape the status of a creation, showing it all in its significance, grandeur and truth as it is actually created. […] In the cultivated places, although at times in regions hardly at all tillable, you see figures spading or hoeing; you see one, from time to time, straighten up his back… and wipe his forehead with the back of his hands. You will eat your bread by the sweat of your brows. […] 'Cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. Thorns and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herbs of the earth. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return of the earth.' […] Nature yields herself to those who trouble to explore her."

Jean-François Millet in 'Drawn into the Light', edited by Alexandra I. Murphy, page 5, 22, 28, first published in 1999 by Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

"Money, food, grades, and honours must be husbanded carefully, but the automatic reinforcements of being right and moving forward are inexhaustible."

B.F. Skinner in 'The Technology of Teaching', page 158, first published in 1968 by Prentice-Hall, Inc., USA