Range Quotes

“When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“If we don’t live in the same vibe, it is hard to be aware of each other. When our reading differs from our neighbors’ reality, our surroundings may take a range of discordant shades and daily episodes become unrecognizable. But if we endeavor to find out, the “who is who”, the “what is what” and the “where is Waldo”, we might demonstrate our social literacy and connectedness. ("Fish for silence.")”
― Erik Pevernagie

“mental meandering and personal experimentation are sources of power, and head starts are overrated”
― David Epstein, Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

“The tree burst into color and we all gasped at the red, yellow, green, white and the blue lights boldly growing in the cold night, the only lights for miles around in the inmense darkness of the range.”
― Jeannette Walls, Half Broke Horses

“Behind government corruption are a wide range of vested corporate interests.”
― Steven Magee

“Police internal affairs are in the business of protecting corrupt and incompetent police officers from prosecution due to the extensive range of laws that they have blatantly broken.”
― Steven Magee

“I have no doubts that if the laws are applied correctly, that we will see a wide range of corporate government officials go to jail for the willful poisoning of the masses.”
― Steven Magee

“The bigger the picture, the more unique the potential human contribution. Our greatest strength is the exact opposite of narrow specialization. It is the ability to integrate broadly.

According to Gary Marcus, a psychology and neuroscience professor, who sold his machine learning company to Uber, "In narrow enough worlds, humans may not have much to contribute much longer.”
― David Epstein, Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World / Messy / The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

“As the wireless radiation industry continues to drastically increase the number of transmitters, electromagnetic researchers are documenting the range of new adverse health conditions that are emerging in the masses.”
― Steven Magee

“A police officer should legally be able to refuse body mounted electronic devices, based on the extensive range of evidence that biological toxicity is known to occur from long term exposure to their electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions.”
― Steven Magee

“In the distance, the Himalayan range flared into fluorescence, as its snowy peaks reflected the moonlight back at the velvet sky, split into half by the shimmering strip of the Milky Way.”
― Kiran Manral, Missing, Presumed Dead

“I was not surprised that researching my disabling sickness uncovered a wide range of frauds.”
― Steven Magee

“There are a wide range of people that are in the business of damaging public health. They call themselves governments and corporations.”
― Steven Magee

“What sets a prolific discoverer apart from the pack are the wide range of discoveries that span many disciplines.”
― Steven Magee

“The government disability program has developed a wide range of feeble excuses to deny you your earned benefits.”
― Steven Magee

“But nothing could assuage the unconscious fury of our new and tragic understanding, our sense of having been cheated, our fear, for, however we looked for it, we could not find a fit object for our disgust and despair, and so we attacked everything in our way with an equal and infinite passion…”
― László Krasznahorkai, The Melancholy of Resistance

“There are a wide range of government officials that belong in jail.”
― Steven Magee

“The medical profession had me on a wide range of prescription drugs and most of them made me sicker, not better.”
― Steven Magee, Magee’s Disease

“When I reviewed the range of toxins I had been exposed to in the workplace, I was not surprised to find I had lung disease.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“Pramipexole had a wide range of side effects.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“You should aim to keep your bedroom in the range of 30% to 50% relative humidity for improved sleep.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I was diagnosed with a range of sleep disorders after leaving my extreme night shift job.”
― Steven Magee, Night Shift Recovery

“Each family was required to have two things in order to be chosen. They had to have: a) one boy and one girl between the ages of three and eight; and b) they had to have definite creative interests, such as interests in painting, writing, the sciences, music, architecture, medicine. These two requirements would not only assure future generations of Krakatoa citizens; but also he assumed that people with creative interests are not liable to be too bored on a small desolate island; and people with inventive interests can more easily cope with unusual situations and form a stronger foundation for a cultured heredity.”
― William Pène du Bois, The Twenty-One Balloons

“It is difficult to accept that the best learning road is slow, and that doing poorly now is essential for better performance later. It is so deeply counterintuitive that it fools the learners themselves”
― David Epstein

“When the body nutrition is off, you will get diagnosed with a wide range of medical conditions because of it and most will disappear when you fix it.”
― Steven Magee

“Unlike modern pedantic scholars who are obsessed with their specialization and, thus, inordinately attach to the periodization of history, Lewis’s mind ranged generously over time.”
― Jason Baxter

“Hypoxemia has a wide range of non specific symptoms that vary widely between different people.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“The sampling period is not incidental to the development of great performers—something to be excised in the interest of a head start—it is integral.”
― David Epstein

“I have never met a doctor that could accurately diagnose my wide range of sickness and correctly treat me.”
― Steven Magee

“As a child my roaming range was 5 miles, as a young teenager it was 230 miles, as a young adult it was 2,000 miles, and as a mature adult it was 7,500 miles!”
― Steven Magee