Osterman Quotes & Sayings

In 50 years, no one will care about the fiscal cliff or the Euro crisis. They'll just ask, "So the Arctic melted, and then what did you do?" — Bill McKibben

I'm disappointed in you, Adrian. I'm very disappointed. Reassembling myself was the first trick I learned. It didn't kill Osterman. Did you really think it would kill me? I have walked across the surface of the sun. I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast, they could hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you, Adrian, you're just a man. The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite. — Alan Moore

I felt good in the bullpen and even when we came out in the first inning I felt fairly good. — Cat Osterman

I think we mixed a lot more curveballs than normal because they were either going after my drop or laying off of it and that's normally my go-to (pitch). — Cat Osterman

For other organisms, bumbling along from here to nowhere is well managed. For us, it is a messy business and often intolerably horrific. To end all this paradox and horror [...] we must cease reproducing. Nothing less will do. — Thomas Ligotti

Don't just discover . . . Encounter! — J.P. Osterman

See you on the other side, kid. — Ashton Kutcher

Maybe God has a house.
But not here. — Theodore Roethke

If you look back at yesterday and think it was a big deal, then you haven't done anything today. — Cat Osterman

To invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know — Francis Bacon

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days. — Cat Osterman

You are stronger than you know. — Lori Osterman

I didn't leave that crowd of ocelots to go back into it." [when asked to write the film script for The Osterman Weekend] — Robert Ludlum

The biggest thing is no matter what level I've played at, there is something I can bring to them. — Cat Osterman

When someone you have a lot of respect for believes in you, it helps you believe in yourself. — Cat Osterman

I've had moments where I realize my body isn't going to withstand many more seasons, but I am very satisfied with my career and I am trying not to look at retirement as a sad thing. — Cat Osterman

I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long. — Jean-Luc Godard

Memories of traumatic experiences may not be primarily retrieved as narratives. Our own and others' research has suggested that PTSD traumatized people's difficulties with putting memories into words are reflected in actual changes in brain activity.
(van der Kolk, Hopper & Osterman, 2001)
Trauma and Cognitive Science, Chapter 1 — Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

But I wasn't getting in my pace, staying within myself, I was getting a little rushed. So I think I finally took a couple deep breaths and let myself get my timing back. — Cat Osterman

The more we consume, acquire, and elevate our status, the harder it is to stay happy. — Jane McGonigal

The athletes are still out competing the same as a Division I team, and I think we've done a good job of creating an atmosphere where they're responsible for their actions and their play. — Cat Osterman

It's always about wanting to one-up myself from the day before. There's never an absolute 100% perfect performance, but going out and striving for that perfect performance is what keeps me going. — Cat Osterman

I didn't bring my headphones, I'd watched the two movies they had played and I was just like, 'Can we please find a donor that wants to give us a private jet? This is not Okay.' — Cat Osterman

And they know I didn't hold expectations for them like I do for myself. But I also tell them I'm not going to lower the expectations I do have for them because we're playing Division II. — Cat Osterman

Are we all just lightning rods for other people's destinies? Is that what it's all about — Anthony McDonald

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked. — Cat Osterman