Quotes About Threshold

How much violence, Marshal, do you think a man can carry before it breaks him?

There were still choices to be made, decisions to reach, actions to take. Many of them. But in one...single declaration of intent, we stepped across the threshold of war.

There comes a turning point in intense physical struggle where one abandons oneself to a profligate usage of strength and bodily resource, ignoring the costs until the struggle is over. Women find this point in childbirth; men in battle. Past that certain point, you

I lose all control after two drinks of anything.

Examples of such self-reorganization abound in Order Out of Chaos. Heat moving evenly through a liquid suddenly, at a certain threshold, converts into a convection current that radically reorganizes the liquid, and millions of molecules, as if on cue, suddenly form themselves into hexagonal cells.

Books are the steps of the threshold. . . . All Cimmerian authors have passed it . . . Then the wordless language of the dead begins, which says the things that only the language of the dead can say. Cimmerian is the last language of the living, the language of the threshold! You come here to try to listen there, beyond. . . . Listen .

What line separates the inside from the outside, the rumble of wheels from the howl of wolves?

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

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Capitalize on Threshold Moments: When we enter a new group, our brains decide quickly whether to connect. So successful cultures treat these threshold moments as more important than any other.

The hero's journey has three main parts: Departure, Initiation, and Return. The hero hears a call, refuses it at first, and then crosses the threshold into a new world. During Initiation, he faces stiff challenges and stares into the abyss. But along the way—usually with the help of mentors who give the hero a divine gift—he transforms and becomes at one with his new self. Then he returns, becoming the master of two worlds, committed to improving each.

The Water gets hot very gradually, and as far as the frog is concerned, there is no one point where it gets dramatically different or bad enough to jump out.

She lived, it seemed, at the place where the river Styx narrowed.

And then he remembered that in the outside world, no one had to unlock a door before he entered

The world is a place where the extraordinary can sit just beside the ordinary with the thinnest of boundaries.

our threshold of survival-prone behavior is so high it takes the prospect of total extermination to activate modes of placation and compromise, may there not be other processes, equally life-preserving, which can similarly be triggered off only at a far higher level of stimulus

MORS JANUA VITAE

Sometimes it's good to know there are limits.

I'm a strong person, but every man has his limits.

We care about margins.

Doors are very powerful things. Things are different on either side of them.

Along the borders of this world lie others. There are places you can cross. This is one such place.

writer and story scholar James Scott Bell calls "doorways of no return."1

And there's a thin line between genius and insanity, isn't there?