#rod

Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#great #greatest #how #knows #like

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work. ↗

— Hermann von Helmholtz

#deep #doing #fall #fallen #gravity

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera. ↗

— John Hench

#color #developing #did #easier #filters

For only by nurturing the minds and strengthening the values of our children can we give them an opportunity to be full, productive citizens, to reach their God-given potential, and to have good jobs right here in Oklahoma. ↗

— Brad Henry

#citizens #full #give #god-given #good

I think my own strengths are in television production. ↗

— Jim Henson

#i think #my own #own #production #strengths

Yeah, I did some small parts in high school and the first year of college and then fairly soon thereafter I settled into the backstage scenery, and then at the University of Maryland I was doing posters for their productions. ↗

— Jim Henson

#college #did #doing #fairly #first

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen. ↗

— Keith Henson

#ancestral #characteristics #evolution #our #promoted

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term reproductive success loop over generations. ↗

— Keith Henson

#behaviour #brains #chemicals #flooding #generations

Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases Rewarding brain chemicals and in the long term improves reproductive success. ↗

— Keith Henson

#attention #brain #chemicals #improves #leads

Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path. ↗

— George Herbert

#gentle #god #path #rod #take