Treiman Quotes & Sayings

Trying to understand her teenage daughter's behavior was like trying to listen to a recording of a symphony whose volume vacillated unpredictably from barely audible to deafening. She couldn't hear the music, and all she wanted to do was leave the room. — Sonja Yoerg

Wall and Melzack showed how a chronic injury not only makes the cells in the pain system fire more easily but can also cause our pain maps to enlarge their "receptive field" (the area of the body's surface that they map for), so that we begin to feel pain over a larger area of our body's surface. This was happening to Moskowitz, whose neck pain was spreading to both sides of his neck. Wall and Melzack also showed that as maps enlarge, pain signals in one map can "spill" into adjacent pain maps. Then we may develop referred pain, when we are hurt in one body part but feel the pain in another, some distance away. — Norman Doidge

Scientific theory is a contrived foothold in the chaos of living phenomena. — Wilhelm Reich

Title: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?
Only verse: Nothing. — Kurt Vonnegut

The strict mother she & her brother had grown up with was body-snatched. "...Who are you? What did you do with my mother? — Lesley Stahl

Lissa Treiman is an artist who submitted a guest strip to me back in 2008 and whose work I've followed since. She works in animation. When I first mentioned on Twitter that I was interested in writing a series but not drawing it, she got in touch. — John Allison

The business plan should address: "How will I get customers? How will I market the product or service? Who will I target?" The principles of a business plan are pretty much the same. But after page one to two, everything is unpredictable, because costs or competition will change and you don't know how things will be received by the market. You have to be able to continually adapt. Companies that fail to adapt will die. Others are brilliant at adapting. — Cameron Johnson

Doesn't reincarnation strike you as just another form of procrastination? — Chuck Palahniuk

I want you for eternity, not for a brief finish line.
There's no one after you. — Krista Ritchie

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine. — Richie Gerber

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

By venturing into space, we improve life for everyone here on Earth - scientific advances and innovations that come from this kind of research create products we use in our daily lives. — Buzz Aldrin

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares? He's a mile away and you've got his shoes! — Billy Connolly

I never thought I'd say I'm so very glad you're a rogue instead of an angel. But I suppose it's all right as long as you're my rogue
- Rebecca - — Johanna Lindsey

I don't know what's the matter with you," she observed to him once; "but I suspect you're a great humbug. — Henry James