#eight

A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress. ↗

— Lord Byron

#dress #eighty #hundred #man #new

...the reward centers of the brain--where the pleasure of those high-calorie foods registers--also respond to other substances that bring about pleasure....But those reward centers also respond to other gratifying things, like watching a sunset or experiencing a loving touch...So while you may not be able to change the wiring in your brain, you can "feed" those reward centers other pleasures...Biology isn't destiny when you have effective strategies... ↗

— Bob Greene

#food-additction #weight-loss #change

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters. ↗

— Helen Clark

#fosters #grow #heightened #injustice #left

No matter how much Bill Gates may claim otherwise, he missed the Internet, like a barreling freight train that he didn't hear or see coming. ↗

— Jim Clark

#bill gates #claim #coming #freight #gates

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me. ↗

— Julian Clary

#lightweight #me #point #whole

I couldn't get as big as a bodybuilder. I tried to put on as much weight in the right places as I could. My weightlifting was impressive for me, but not for some of the guys I see down at the gym. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

#could #down #get #guys #gym

You really, really, really have to love what you are going to do in theater because it is an unmerciful life. It's six days a week. It's eight performances a week. And that's doing the exact same thing over and over and over again. ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#because #days #doing #eight #exact

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#comfort #ecstasy #height #hermit #his

I have been on diets that were supervised by doctors, that were carefully supervised where I lost weight. ↗

— Roberta Flack

#carefully #diets #doctors #i #lost

For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way. ↗

— Barry Corbin

#car #day #down #eight #essentially