Advised Quotes

“When I worked on the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea we were advised to only use the medical oxygen after the daily headaches appeared and that just 15 minutes use was all that was needed to clear up the headaches for a while before we would need it again. We were not advised to use medical oxygen continuously as the Federal Aviation Regulations advises pilots to do. We were not advised to use pulse oximeters to monitor our blood oxygen levels or that the company medical oxygen should have been routinely administered only with our doctors prescription.”
― Steven Magee, Health Forensics

“A seeker of radical strenght
Keeps everything on track,
Feeble force yields at length,
Not sure where to go back.

When one can't find courage,
And all the efforts seem vain,
It's advised to fight like a sage:
Be powerful like a bullet train!

Too much work and no play
Can make a brain go astray!
Determined to live and stay
Can lead life into a long way.”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual

“I never took supplements atop the high altitude mountains, as the professional astronomy management teams never advised us to do so.”
― Steven Magee

“The professional astronomy management team advised us to take drugs and oxygen to treat our acute mountain sickness, not supplements.”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“Who frightened you? Who hurt you?

Far too young to be protecting someone, yet that's the obvious answer: What's inside that little stupid twitch and dodge? Who taught you to do that? Why would you protect the person who hurt you? So they could do it again? Does that overwhelming selfdestroyed - what? Instinct? - at such a brand new age make any real fucking sense? Were you born this fucked up? How does all that fear soak down into those brittle bones that fucking quick?

They take care of you, don't they? They protect you. And you already know that there's nothing else outside? Nothing better? What else can you do? Is that it? There's so many more good hours than bad, aren't there? Warm times, I guess, when you play and when you show off to the audience that chose you.

You do what they say. And they haven't told you what's bad yet. Right? It doesn't hurt; really, does it? And all the time passes away so quickly. Into baby time. Into what you do whenever you want time.

No one really did hurt you, did they? Why would they want to? You're too pretty. too perfect, too valuable. Aren't you?”
― Peter Sotos, Tick