Behavior Quote by Jeffrey Kluger

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance…

— Emily Blackwell

There is no way that carrying fifty or sixty extra pounds is easy on your heart, your lungs, or your liver. That's a fact.…

— Marianne Williamson

People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked up anything…

— Mark Rippetoe

“Even our behavior and emotions seem to have been shaped by a prankster. Why do we crave the very foods that are bad for…

— Randolph M. Nesse

“Trying to change our habits demands effort and effort takes energy - which is a cost. And our brains constantly look for ways to…

— Peter Bevelin

“The brilliant rationalist had encountered a central, frustrating tenet of human nature: behavior change is hard. The cleverest engineer or economist or politician or…

— Steven D. Levitt

“It is easy sometimes to blame genetics, some obesity gene perhaps. But even if this were true, we’ll still be referring to the machine.…

— Dew Platt

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

— Tarryn Fisher

You get to the point in life where you realize you have to roll up your sleeves, deal with the consequences of what happens,…

— Ernie Isley

As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do not seem to be…

— Lewis Thomas

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone…

— Bill Hybels

“We know that there are physiological limits on who we are and how we act. But should we attempt to manipulate our behavior within…

— Susan Cain