A. J. Jacobs Quotes

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• I know that you should always say yes to adventures or you'll lead a very dull life.
• A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and…
• I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing…
• I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter…
• Its sort of my job to feel good.
• I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
• Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
• Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
• If my former self and my current self met for coffee, they'd get along OK, but they'd both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking…
• More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
• A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
• The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
• I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad.…
• I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
• My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned…
• The best we can do, to paraphrase Pollan, is to eat whole foods, mostly plants, and not too much.
• I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
• After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that…
• Probably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
• I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that…

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