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«If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Determination
| Keywords:
despise, dropped, How to swim, miles, nearest, ocean, plane, swam, swim
«It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.»
«It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.»
«It is not a dreamlike state, but the somehow insulated state, that a great musician achieves in a great performance. He's aware of where he is and what he's doing, but his mind is on the playing of the instrument with an internal sense of rightness / it is not merely mechanical, it is not only spiritual; it is something of both, on a different plane and a more remote one.»
«In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.»
«A camel makes an elephant feel like a jet plane.»
«A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| Keywords:
all out, chamber, decompression, faraway, here and there, plane, reassess, reassessing, reevaluate, suffice
«If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music, and of aviation»
Author: Tom Stoppard
(Playwright)
| Keywords:
aviation, Beethoven, crash, history of music, plane, plane crash, The History, The History of
«Inequalities of mind and body are so established by God Almighty, in his constitution of human nature, that no art or policy can ever plane them down to a level»
Author: John Adams
(President)
| About:
Body,
Constitution,
God,
Mind
| Keywords:
Almighty, A level, God Almighty, inequalities, No Policy, plane
«Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.»
Author: Robert Frost
| About:
Education,
Life
| Keywords:
higher education, lifts, plane, planing, regard
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