“The hurricanes are following the tropical ocean temperature. The tropical ocean temperature is following the Northern Hemisphere. And it's very hard now to believe that there's anything natural about that.” BelieveHardNaturalOceanFollowingTemperatureHurricanesTropicalHemisphere Author:Kerry Emanuel
“Senescent judges show how patriotic they are by passing out hard sentences for tearing up a draft card or following one's conscience according to the principles established by our country at the Nuremburg trials.” CountryHardShowsPrinciplesJudgingConscienceFollowingSentencesTrialsPassingPassingsCardsOur CountryPatrioticPassing Out Author:Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
“Keep your head down, avoid all the distractions of being a writer todayall the shifts in the business, all the drama, all the debating about where publishing is goingand write the best story that you can. It sounds a bit glib, but I think this is advice a lot of people are having trouble following right now. It is so hard to focus. But that is the single key to success.” PeopleThinkingWritingHardStoriesTodayBitsSoundFocusTroubleAdviceKeysDramaRight NowFollowingDistractionPublishingKey To Success Author:Jeff Abbott
“Following Korzybski, I put things in probabilities, not absolutes... My only originality lies in applying this zetetic attitude outside the hardest of the hard sciences, physics, to softer sciences and then to non-sciences like politics, ideology, jury verdicts and, of course, conspiracy theory.” HardLyingCoursesAttitudeTheoryAbsolutesFollowingPhysicsHardestIdeologyConspiracyOriginalityProbabilityJuryConspiracy TheoryVerdictScience Physics Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“When I came overseas, I realized that there are many ideologies and many trends, and it's also very hard to produce honest art and honest literature. I decided that I didn't want to follow any of these ideologies or trends, because that's also a kind of pressure that doesn't allow absolute freedom. So I decided that I was only going to produce works that were satisfactory to me, and that meant not following any trends and being anti-ideological.” WantKindArtHardLiteratureHonestProduceDecidedAbsolutesPressureFollowingI RealizedIdeologyTrendsIdeologicalAbsolute Freedom Author:Gao Xingjian
“In 1948, I began coaching basketball at UCLA. Each hour of practice we worked very hard. Each day we worked very hard. Each week we worked very hard. Each season we worked very hard. Four fourteen years we worked very hard and didn't win a national championship. However, a national championship was won in the fifteenth year. Another in the sixteenth. And eight more in the following ten years.” YearsHardWinningHoursPracticeFourWeekTenBasketballSeasonsFollowingEightCoachingEach DayNbaChampionshipFourteenUclaNational Championships Author:John Wooden
“Food is like a torture device because hiking 47 miles a day is hard enough. And then you're trying to get down 6,000 calories a day. Every hour, I needed a snack, every few hours I had to take in a meal and it's just not food, it's fuel. You're not enjoying it - you're seriously shoving it in your mouth and following it with water, juice or Gatorade.” TryingHardEnoughEnjoyWaterHoursNeededMouthsFollowingMilesMealsTortureFuelDevicesHikingJuiceCaloriesSnacksGatorade Author:Jennifer Pharr Davis