Eliasberg Street Quotes & Sayings

The notion that a human being should be constantly happy is a uniquely modern, uniquely American, uniquely destructive idea. — Andrew Weil

Whatever you're working on, take small bites. The task will not be overwhelming if you can reduce it to its smallest component. — Richard Russo

When you meet a swordsman, draw your sword: Do not recite poetry to one who is not a poet. — Robert Greene

Everybody has a great deal of experience in living. But no one lives in anything like the highest style of the art; and it is very disconcerting to notice how badly one lives in the sense of the extent to which fatigue and other discomforts are connected with one's important dealings with other people. — Harry Stack Sullivan

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine. — Tim Minchin

It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover. — Gertrude Stein

Rebecca asked me what made the most lasting impression on children. I told her it was the stories their parents read to them at night, and all the messages about hope and strength and love that were embedded in them. — Deborah Harkness

That's the nice thing about doing research. Whatever you do is novel, so you always have this sense of novelty, even if you are only using a new gadget. — Alfred Hershey

Being unwanted is the biggest disease in the world — Mother Teresa

Ursula tried to remember what her own last words to her father had been. A nonchalant 'See you later,' she concluded. The final irony. 'We never know when it will be the last time,' she said ... — Kate Atkinson

Time heals nothing. Wounds fester and ooze. Life drags you by a rope over rocks and stones and one day you look up, look back, and see you've been used to cut a path, mark a trail. — Bob Thurber

You try to be a nice guy, but girls just have to be stubborn about it. Then they complain chivalry is dead. Screw that. — Becca Ann

Fartlek, or speed play, is variable-pace running that emphasizes creativity. During a 30-minute run, choose objects to run to - telephone poles, trees, buildings, other runners, whatever. Make choices that mark off different distances, so your pickups vary in length from 15 to 90 seconds, and modify your pace to match the distance. — Don Kardong