Body Quote by Randolph M. Nesse Download Open image “The body is a bundle of careful compromises.” — Randolph M. Nesse ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Body Bundles Careful Compromise Negotiation
The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The body is what reminds us on a daily basis that we're human. The body defies us, it betrays us, we have to struggle… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The body can endure compromise and the mind can be seduced by it. Only the heart protests. The heart. Carbon-based primitive in a silicon… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The body enjoys a great share in our being, and has an eminent place in it. Its structure and composition, therefore, are worthy of… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Compromise is such an integral part of being a human being. You're compromising in every decision you make. — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
“The body is just the body. It has it's own structures, it's own laws. It's a thing unto itself. When it breaks down, that's… — Tiffany Baker Copy Share Image
You come into Congress, and in the orientation, pretty quickly, you're separated out by party. Which makes no sense, if you want to get… — Michelle Lujan Grisham Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered by our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“The current danger for most of us is not the deprivation suffered bu our ancestors but an excess of nutrition.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
I can't prove it, but I'm pretty sure that people gain a selective advantage from believing in things they can't prove. — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Darwinism gives no moral guidelines about how we should live or how doctors should practice medicine. A Darwinian perspective on medicine can, however, help… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Therapists have long known that many depressions go away only after a person finally gives up some long-sought goal and turns his or her… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Paradoxically, it now is much easier to treat many mental disorders than it is to understand them.” — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Long before there were effective treatments, physicians dispensed prognoses, hope, and, above all, meaning. When something terrible happens-and serious disease is always terrible-people want… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Thanks to subsequent years of conversations with evolutionists, especially Williams, and with medical school residents and faculty, he has found that an evolutionary perspective… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Emotional capacities are shaped by situations that occurred repeatedly in the course of evolution and that were important to fitness. Attacks by predators, threats… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
“Every textbook description of a disease should have, in our opinion, a section devoted to its evolutionary aspects. This section should address the following… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
The very purpose for being in this body, for every one of us, is to live and rejoice in that virgin area, that untouched,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
I've used the Phoenix Centrifuge to replicate what the body's going to go through on the flight up. I've also done some gravity tests… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
Boys and boys' body image and clothes have become just as important an issue for boys as for girls. — Rosalind Wiseman Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Racism is a cancer. You cannot ignore it and it'll go away. If you ignore cancer, it simply metastasizes and consumes the whole body. — Daryl Davis Copy Share Image
America, you're sending girls a mixed message. On one hand, you're saying to have positive body image and love who we are; on the… — Adora Svitak Copy Share Image
I read a couple of books about neuroscience and the relationship between the mind and the body. — Joel Kinnaman Copy Share Image
