“The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness...” — Archibald Hill Quote

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.

In a large mass of muscle deprived of its circulation, the rate at which the recovery process can go on, after severe stimulation, depends on the rate at which oxygen can reach the fibres by diffusion.

Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.

I was painfully shy, and I had tremendous difficulty making friends. So, lacking friends, I watched other people. Watching is something all writers must do, and it was in junior high that I learned to do it.

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.