Ergometer Quotes

#1. Ergometer is Greek for 'work meter'

Barry S. Strauss

#2. I climbed on the rowing ergometer, and started to pull - losing myself in the rhythm of sweat and pain.

Stefan Kieszling

#3. After hooking up the fuel line and pumping a little gasoline through the hose, I prepared for a workout on the 'coach's ergometer'.

Brad Alan Lewis

#4. Think of aerobics plus weight lifting minus the music or camaraderie. Combine unalloyed endurance with straightforward strength and demand poise, timing, and practiced form as well. Think of pure pain: that's the ergometer.

Barry S. Strauss

#5. If rowing is a trial then the ergometer is the courtroom, the meter is the jury. And an honest jury at that, because the numbers do not lie.

Barry S. Strauss

#6. The ergometer simulates the physical demands of rowing, packaging the pains with none of the amenities that make it worthwhile ...

Stefan Kieszling

#7. It is no doubt technically possible to study metabolism and respiration of fishes during swimming at a constant rate, and of certain insects and birds during flight, and to obtain information similar to that obtained on man during work on a bicycle ergometer or a treadmill.

August Krogh

#8. If, in fact, it is what's inside us that makes all the difference, then the difference is made when we choose what goes inside." ~ The Traveler's Gift

Andy Andrews

#9. Everything burns if the flame is hot enough. The world is nothing but a crucible.

Andrew Davidson

#10. The blind lead the blind. It's the democratic way.

Henry Miller

#11. You have a voice in your head that keeps saying things...haven't you noticed.

Sam Harris

#12. And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.

Sydney Pollack

#13. I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.

Britt Robertson

#14. I am the soul in limbo.

Andre Breton

#15. If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Ramana Maharshi

#16. So people have been hurting and I understand that. And it doesn't give them comfort or solace for me to tell them, you know, but for me, we would be in a worldwide depression.

Harry Reid