James McKeen Cattell quotes

James McKeen Cattell quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands!”
-- James McKeen Cattell

#Sports Quotes #War Quotes #Night Quotes

“Sport is how poor kids from poor countries pass through the eye of the needle to riches and recognition.”
“We're never as good as we think we are, nor as bad as we think we are.”
“Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.”
“The problem after a war is with the victor. He thinks he has just proved that war and violence pay. Who will now teach him a lesson?”

Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
“Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.”
“Recruiting Station was a story that came as the result of many anxious awakenings during many nights.”
“I'm a bit of an insomniac. I go to bed at 5am because I get caught up in watching TV or listening to music at night.”
“Perhaps something like Facebook couldn't have been invented by somebody who goes out five nights a week and has a ton of friends and makes friends really easily.”

Source : Source: www.rollingstone.com
“Music is what mathematics does on a Saturday night.”
“You just came wild and sexy all over my hand and even left some claw marks on my back to prove it. Donâ€™t go getting shy on me now. â€˜Cause baby, before the night is over you will be naked in my bed.”

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