“I don't have a favorite body part nor do I have a favorite exercise. Everyone who is honest prefers machines over free-weights, because machines are more convenient and cause less muscle pain and require less concentration and are generally less dangerous. BUT, if you like to have real gains you have to train hard and heavy, and you have to chose always the LEAST favorite exercises which actually give you the best possible results. So go for the least favorite exercises, the free weights... and go for the muscle pain!” IfsGivingRealHardBodyPainCausesResultsHonestDangerousExerciseGainsMachinesWeightTrainHeavyMusclesConcentrationConvenientTrain Hard Author:Nasser El Sonbaty
“It is a dangerous thing for the perfecting of our minds to gain applause by works that do not call forth the whole of our energies; for in that case one generally comes to a standstill.” MindWholeEnergyCasesDangerousGainsApplauseDangerous ThingsStandstill Author:Georg C. Lichtenberg
“For of course one is never safe when in love. Growth is demanding and may seem dangerous, for there is loss as well as gain in growth. But why go on living if one has ceased to grow? And what more demanding atmosphere for growth than love in any form, than any relationship which can call out and requires of us our most secret and deepest selves?” IfsWellsMaySelfSeemsFormCoursesGrowsGrowthLossSecretDangerousGoes OnSafeGainsAtmosphere Book:Journal of a Solitude Source: Journal of a Solitude
“If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?” IfsKindSelfBodyAsksDangerousDependsHealthyGainsPainfulSelf ConfidenceOperationsExpensiveBreastsImplantsHealthy BodyBreast Implants Author:Katha Pollitt
“Though the principles of the banking trade may appear somewhat abstruse, the practice is capable of being reduced to strict rules. To depart upon any occasion from those rules, is consequence of some flattering speculation of extraordinary gain, is almost always extremely dangerous, and frequently fatal to the banking company which attempts it.” MayCompanyPrinciplesPracticeDangerousCapableConsequenceGainsTradeExtraordinaryOccasionsStrictBankingSpeculationFlatteringStrict Rules Book:An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations Source: An inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
“I do think it's dangerous when you are overly secularizing, and sometimes you get very smart, and sometimes [you] gain a lot of smarts, but you lose a lot of wisdom.” ThinkingSometimesLosesDangerousSmartGainsVery Smart Author:Van Jones