Action Potential Threshold

Famous quotes containing the words action, potential and/or threshold:

    “This nation asks for action, and action now.”
    —Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)

    “The planet on which we live is poorly organized, many areas are overpopulated, others are reserved for a few, technology’s potential is only in part realized, and most people are starving.”
    —Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1921–1990)

    “The free man is a warrior.—How is freedom measured among individuals, among peoples? According to the resistance that must be overcome, according to the trouble it takes to stay on top. The highest type of free man must be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps away from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)