"Most people who do a lot of exercise,……" — Robert M. Sapolsky
"Most people who do a lot of exercise, particularly in the form of competitive athletics, have unneurotic, extraverted, optimistic personalities to begin with. (Marathon runners are exceptions to this.)"
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20 Quotes by Robert M. Sapolsky
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Perhaps most excitingly, we are uncovering the brain basis of our behaviors - normal, abnormal and in-between. We are mapping…
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We're getting along so well; I trust you so much for this one second that I'm going to let you…
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Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.
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We live well enough to have the luxury to get ourselves sick with purely social, psychological stress.
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Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one's own skilled action.
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The purpose of science is not to cure us of our sense of mystery and wonder, but to constantly reinvent…
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Some Poor grad student pressing on the flanks of a hamster and out comes a doctorate on the other side
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Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.
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Finish this lecture, go outside, and unexpectedly get gored by an elephant, and you are going to secrete glucocorticoids. There's…
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If you live in a baboon troop in the Serengeti, you only have to work three hours a day for…
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Digestion is quickly shut down during stress…The parasympathetic nervous system, perfect for all that calm, vegetative physiology, normally mediates the…
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Fossey, Fossey, you cranky difficult strong-arming self-destructive misanthrope, mediocre scientist, deceiver of earnest college students, probable cause of more deaths…
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More Athletics Quotes
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Athletics is a luxury.
— Roger Bannister
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Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to…
— Usain Bolt
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For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a…
— Usain Bolt
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A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
— Usain Bolt
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For too long the world has failed to recognise that the Olympic Games and the Olympic Movement are about fine…
— Avery Brundage
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Because I just like sports, I like athletics and I like competition.
— Trishelle Cannatella
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In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just…
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball…
— Parminder Nagra
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We must respect the rights and properties of our fellowman. And then learn to play the game of life, as…
— Jesse Owens
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The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way,…
— Jeffrey Archer
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Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice,…
— Frank Robinson
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The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we…
— Anson Dorrance
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