Appelbaum Training Quotes & Sayings

There is no thrill like the thrill of discovery; no life like the life of a mining camp in the days of its youth. Nevada had known them in full and overflowing measure. The salt of the sea in the blood of a sailor is but a weak and insipid condiment compared with the solution of cyanide, sage and silicate in the blood of the prospector. — C.B. Glasscock

My concern is that you will face some delays and disappointments at this formative time in your life and feel that no one else in the history of mankind has ever had your problems or faced those difficulties. And when some of those challenges come, you will have the temptation common to us all to say, "This task is too hard. The burden is too heavy. The path is too long." And so you decide to quit, simply to give up. Now to terminate certain kinds of tasks is not only acceptable but often very wise. If you are, for example, a flagpole sitter then I say, "Come on down." But in life's most crucial and telling tasks, my plea is to stick with it, to persevere, to hang in and hang on, and to reap your reward. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Denial was a weapon; it killed truth, numbed the mind, and I was a junkie. — John Hart

It may well be that individuals who are attracted into linguistics have a certain talent for metalinguistic reflection - a delight in constructing ungrammatical sentences, finding curious ambiguities and implicatures, hearing and imitating accents, and the like - and that professional training as a linguist only amplifies this proclivity. It would then be no surprise that linguists' sense of what is interesting in language is different from that of our friends in biology, economics, and dentistry. It is just that we linguists have made the mistake of assuming everyone else is like us. — Ray S. Jackendoff

In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it. — Denise Levertov

I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something. — Sunny Deol

Like you were sad, maybe. And a bit scared. — Kazuo Ishiguro

There must be a judicious arrangement of all the parts. Considered conversely, the artist's task is to fill his panel with a design that conforms to its shape and is beautiful in itself. — Walter J. Phillips

Only in the worst moment will you know: Friend or Foe! — Hanna Jansen

To be motivated by divine love is for everything to be possible — Sunday Adelaja

When I read a script, I am already in the movie with my music, and I can dive into a world that I haven't seen before. — Volker Bertelmann