Greek Quote by Barry S. Strauss Download Open image “Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'” — Barry S. Strauss ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Greek Inspirational Meter Rowing
Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t. — Richard Asher Copy Share Image
It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is a bizarre, but nevertheless psychologically exact, fact that the physics of the Greeks — being statics and not dynamics — neither knew… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
“the individual’s scoreboard should be a physical artifact in the workspace that displays the individual’s current deep work hour count.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
The Greeks according to official history used letters for hundreds, for tens, and ones.It was extremely complicated. If you talk about Archimedes, you should… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“The more they measure, the more they realize how much the Greeks departed from regular and banal lines in order to produce their effect.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect. Who, then, would wish to prevent… — Evangelista Torricelli Copy Share Image
The student may read Homer or Ãâ schylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that hein some measure… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
...give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, presseddown, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap; for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Greek in me wanted to know what it felt like to pull an oar. The intellectual wondered about how to get eight individuals… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
It's the quintessential Greek sport: harmonious, competitive, agonizing, nautical, and above all, intelligent. It combines Odysseus's brains and brawn and love of the sea… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
When you are on the erg your mind is too busy to pay attention to the sounds of the machine; you notice only that… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The feel of a good row stays with you hours afterward. Your muscles glow, your mind wanders from the papers on you desk and… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
So to the lyre of Orpheus they struck with their oars, The furious water of the sea, and the surge broke into waves. Here… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Rowing it was pointed out, was a sport that risked few injuries. So it was, I ould discover, but only if you did it… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
In college, I was an editor on the student daily... To the extent that I noticed the existence of crew at all, I saw… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
The single sculler, alone on the river at dawn, or spotlighted in his lane during a race, is th emost romantic, the most quixotic… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
Here Greek and Roman find themselves alive along these crowded shelves; and Shakespeare treads again his stage, and Chaucer paints anew his age. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
Drill in exact translation is an excellent way of disposing the mind against that looseness and exaggeration with which the sensationalists have corrupted our… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
My Mom always cooked healthy. Greek food lends itself to cooking healthy. — Cat Cora Copy Share Image
Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
I will always be upfront with the Greek people, so we can solve the country's problems together. — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
The greatest tragedies were written by the Greeks and Shakespeare...neither knew chocolate. — Sandra Boynton Copy Share Image
I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
There's something about the superheroes and the idea behind their relationship with humans, whether it's a metaphor for the better part of ourselves, or… — Clark Gregg Copy Share Image
When we started Appaloosa, we were going to name it Pegasus because everyone was using Greek names. We filed the name. We paid $300,… — David Tepper Copy Share Image
