"The greatest rewards come only from the greatest commitment."

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Source : Arlene Blum (1984). “Annapurna, a woman's place”

Arlene Blum

#Commitment Quotes #Rewards Quotes

“We see things based on autopilot. Our mind identifies something in a certain way, no matter what the eye sees. The eye tells you one thing and the brain tells you another.”
“I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.”

Source : "Speakes Defines His Role In Shaping Events" by Leslie H. Gelb, www.nytimes.com. October 10, 1986.
“My pen.â€™ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. â€˜The torchâ€™, â€˜the paperâ€™, but â€˜my penâ€™. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. Itâ€™s about the most important thing I own.”
“I don't want to get too dippy about all this. If you take the view of the scientist and everything is in a state of vibration, then every note is a vibration, which has a certain frequency, and you know that if you put 40 beats into a frequency it's going to be the same note every time. You take that into infrasound and people can be made to be sick, actually killed. Taking it the other way, not to be too depressing, what about euphoria, etc., and what about consciousness being totally... no, I won't go into that one. Time warps.”
“We should note that this latter type of shift was successfully amplified to a considerable extent by Russian physicists using the intense light of a ruby laser whose wavelength is close to that of a transition of the potassium atom.”

Source : Alfred Kastler (1988). “Oeuvre scientifique: 1956-1983”
“As long as I don't have an idea, I won't write anything.”
“Tis mighty easy o'er a glass of wine On vain refinements vainly to refine, To laugh at poverty in plenty's reign, To boast of apathy when out of pain, And in each sentence, worthy of the schools, Varnish'd with sophistry, to deal out rules Most fit for practice, but for one poor fault That into practice they can ne'er be brought.”
“Civilization comes at a cost of manliness. It comes at a cost of wildness, of risk, of strife. It comes at a cost of strength, of courage, of mastery. It comes at a cost of honor. Increased civilization exacts a toll of virility, forcing manliness into further redoubts of vicariousness and abstraction.”

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