14 Quotes & Sayings By Steve Aylett

Steve Aylett is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). He was appointed to this position by the IAAF Council on November 29, 2013. Mr. Aylett is also a member of the Executive Committee of the IAAF.

A key and a strangler - this is all a...
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A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires. Steve Aylett
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Scientists used to do an experiment whereby a dog’s repeated reward for performing a task was unaccountably replaced by punishment. The dog, knowing it would be penalized for doing well or doing badly, would become melancholic and inactive. This and other unforeseeable results were funded by taxing up to sixty percent of people’s earnings. People became strangely melancholic and inactive Steve Aylett
We have truth in order not to die of art.
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We have truth in order not to die of art. Steve Aylett
Most books are so well written they barely have any...
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Most books are so well written they barely have any effect on the reader’s senses Steve Aylett
I knew books could see people around them, they ground...
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I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell. Steve Aylett
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From space this Earth is incandescent with abominations - the gods write their signature in our entrails Steve Aylett
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Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running Steve Aylett
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Since childhood I’d been suspected of imagination Steve Aylett
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Used a replica gun to steal a replica sportscar and experienced a replica of remorse Steve Aylett
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A story is ready when it falls from your face Steve Aylett
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I crept in to find my father with pennies on his eyes - and looking closer I saw they were made of foil-covered chocolate. Of course I stole and ate them. Magical guilt? Tell me about it Steve Aylett
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He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards Steve Aylett
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What happens when the hitcher and the driver are equally murderous? Steve Aylett