“Recognize that your attention is the most valuable thing you can ever own, and you alone have the ultimate power to choose… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection. — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death.… — Larry Dossey Copy Share Image
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Either it is true that a medicine works or it isn't. It cannot be false in the ordinary sense but true in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many traffic signs have become like placebos, giving false comfort to the afflicted, or simple boilerplate to ward off lawsuits, the roadway… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working in some indirect way,… — Charles Jencks Copy Share Image
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
There is a major problem with reliance on placebos, like most vitamins and antioxidants. Everyone gets upset about Big Science, Big Pharma,… — Michael Specter Copy Share Image
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill,… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
Worship is a meeting at the center so that our lives are centered in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so… — Edmund Clowney Copy Share Image
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers… — Kat Duff Copy Share Image
“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own… — Clair Davies Copy Share Image
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and… — Chris Toumazou Copy Share Image
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
Interviewer: [What do you get up to] In real time? Brian Molko: I go on Placebo sites and have a terrible time… — Brian Molko Copy Share Image
I was a traditional teacher for a time, but my students would ride the energy. I wanted to free people not give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image