Quotes & Sayings About Periodization

When given a choice between two, choose the third. — Jeff Grubb

There is a fairly common pattern in this field where folks go through about three distinct stages. it true of other areas.
1. You know that you know nothing: here you pretty much just use someone else's canned workouts since you don't know what you're doing
2. You know just enough to be dangerous. This is when everybody starts overcomplicating things. You see these insanely complicated training programs and periodization schemes. Lots of charts, graphs and flowcharts.
3. You realize that the above doesn't matter 999 times out of 1000 and you go back to keeping it simple. You realize that hard work on the basics + talent + time > everything else. — Lyle McDonald

There is no more useless activity than that of periodization, the packaging of history, in particular cultural history, into discrete eras - the Jazz Age, the Greatest Generation, the Eisenhower years, the Sixties. Such periods can never be honestly articulated without recourse to so many demurrals and arbitrary demarcations, and the granting of so many exceptions, as to render them practically useless for any kind of serious historical purpose. In times of supposed license, repression reigns freely all around; in eras renowned for their conventionality, oddballs and freaks hoist their banners high. — Michael Chabon

I kept watching Toby to see how he'd manage with those little wineglasses and his big nose, but I never managed to catch him drinking. — J.L. Merrow

Historical periodization always tells a story. It is a narrative device for putting meaning into the flux of historical process - creating protagonists, heroes, pace, and plot. For this reason, the division of history into periods always carries an ideological load, and it is a methodological imperative to approach questions of broad historical periodization with this in mind. — James Ferguson

There was a scene early on during the first season of Roswell and I broke down crying. Since then, I've always just been able to do it. — Shiri Appleby

And your God-given purpose in life is to maximize your potential. You must use the gifts God gave you in order to be fulfilled in life. If you are not fulfilled, it is because you have not yet learned to operate in your gifts. — Mark Jones

Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think. — Dionysius Of Halicarnassus

Life stands still when mankind is afraid to take a chance. — Corita Kent

We all have demons. True fighters chain them to the pit of their dark souls. — L.J. Shen

Today a celebrity sex video isn't a stigma that requires penance and smarm removal; it's a branding device, a platform enhancer, a show reel. — James Wolcott

I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization. — Alberto Salazar

If you should see/a man/walking
down a crowded street/ talking aloud/ to himself
don't run/in the opposite direction
but run toward him/for he is a poet!

You have nothing to fear/from a poet
but the truth — Ted Joans

Periodization isn't magic--you can't out-periodize your genetics, drug users, or stupidity. — Craig Cecil

It [the scientific revolution] outshines everything since the rise of Christianity and reduces the Renaissance and Reformation to the rank of mere episodes, mere internal displacements, within the system of medieval Christendom ... It looms so large as the real origin of the modern world and of the modern mentality that our customary periodization of European history has become an anachronism and an encumbrance. — Herbert Butterfield

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Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Any system of periodization is thus inevitably social, since our ability to envision the historical watersheds separating one conventional "period" from another is basically a product of being socialized into specific traditions of carving the past. — Eviatar Zerubavel