“You use your brain much as you would use a radio crystal; you tune in different frequencies.”

— Chris Prentiss

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“Two a.m. in a dark alley or on a mountainside is not the time to discover your unit is missing a key piece of equipment, or that you are not sure of the radio frequencies of an adjacent unit.”

Wheeler L. Baker (1938) President of Hargrave Military Academy

Source: Crisis Management: A Model For Managers (1993), p. 76
Context: Two a. m. in a dark alley or on a mountainside is not the time to discover your unit is missing a key piece of equipment, or that you are not sure of the radio frequencies of an adjacent unit. The procedural check lists created in training will prevent those critical and unacceptable mistakes. This is the time to benefit from those "lessons learned". But leaders must schedule the time to train, do it right, critique, and move on. It is an investment that will bring the most return.

“I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them.”

Stephen King book Rage

Rage (1977)

“Strain your brain more than your eye… You can copy a thing to a certain limit. Then you must use intellect.”

Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) American painter

Advice to his art students; quoted in Lloyd Goodrich, Thomas Eakins (1933).

“Gratitude will shift you to a higher frequency, and you will attract much better things.”

Ralph Smart

“Nothing is easy in cricket. Maybe when you watch it on TV, it looks easy. But it is not. You have to use your brain and time the ball.”

Rohit Sharma (1987) Indian cricketer

[No formula to it: Rohit Sharma, https://www.thehindu.com/sport/cricket/no-formula-to-it-rohit-sharma/article21615720.ece, The Hindu, 13 December 2017]