#rained

I was trained in seismic prospecting. We'd drill a deep hole and put dynamite in the bottom and blow it up remotely, which would give you a cross-sectional picture of the subsurface, which tells you where to drill. ↗

— George Saunders

#bottom #deep #drill #dynamite #give

Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries. ↗

— Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#any #before #begins #boundaries #constrained

You think you know her. Just wait and see the change. I'll have her trained in no time. ↗

— David O. Selznick

#her #i #just #know #see

It wasn't a checkpoint but a patrol which immediately opened fire after they trained their light on us. ↗

— Giuliana Sgrena

#checkpoint #fire #immediately #light #opened

But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper. ↗

— Michael Shermer

#internet #lies #longer #open #paper

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. ↗

— Yvonne Strahovski

#been #camping #choreography #dancer #days

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear

I never wanted to lose out on an acting job and wonder if I hadn't been trained enough. ↗

— David Alan Grier

#been #enough #hadn #i #job

Our three big emergencies are fire, loss of pressurization or contaminated atmosphere. Any of those things in a spaceship are very deadly and time critical. Everybody's trained, but I'm the commander of the ship, and it's up to me to decide. ↗

— Chris Hadfield

#atmosphere #big #commander #contaminated #critical

Could people be trained to be less gullible? Or are you as stuck with gullibility as you are with skin colour? ↗

— Keith Henson

#could #gullibility #gullible #less #people