If you don’t know history, then you don’t know anything. You are a leaf that doesn’t know it’s part of the tree.
Michael Chrichton-
If you think taking a rest day is a weakness, you have never really trained hard. And you definitely have low testosterone levels.
John Welbourn-
The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
Benjamin Disraeli-
The USDA is in the position of being responsible to the agriculture business. That is their job. Nutrition isn’t their job.
Marion Nestle- When asked about the Food Pyramid in 1991-
Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, to really sleep. Try as mush as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway-
History tells us what works in the gym. Everything else walks down the road with a carrot in it’s ass.
Mark Rippetoe-
Never change things by fighting the existing reality…to change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete!
The really important kind of freedom involves attention and awareness and discipline, and being able to truly care about other people and to sacrifice for them over and over in myriad petty, unsexy ways every day. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think.
David Foster Wallace –