David Epstein Quotes

#1. Consider that children grow more quickly in spring and summer than in fall and winter, and that this is apparently due to sunlight signals that enter through the eyeballs, since the growth of totally blind children consists of similar fluctuations but are not synchronized with the seasons.

David Epstein

#2. The idea that athleticism was suddenly inversely proportional to intellect was never a cause of bigotry, but rather a result of it.

David Epstein

#3. She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur. Shortly, Jory brought him Ice. When

George R R Martin

#4. My main problem is that over and over again, I try to get all my characters to say stuff that I think is so witty or erudite you know, so that everybody will go.

Anne Lamott

#5. They say the personal is political and it's certainly fair to say that, like her politics, Rebecca Epstein's kissing is radical, forthright and uncompromising.

David Nicholls

#6. People of color grow up steeped in 'white' culture. The reverse is not true. And, no, listening to hip-hop on the way to work does not count as immersion.

John Ridley

#7. National leaders who find themselves wilting under the withering criticisms by members of the media, would do well not to take such criticism personally but to regard the media as their allies in keeping the government clean and honest, its services.

Corazon Aquino

#8. A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical.

Paul Dirac

#9. Most of the time, I grill over high heat. I like things to move fast. I like the sound and smell of a very hot fire. I gravitate towards dishes that you can get on and off the grill as quickly as possible. After a while, you'll know without thinking about it how hot the fire is.

Bobby Flay

#10. The same medicine should not be prescribed for every athlete. For some, less training is the right medicine.

David Epstein

#11. When man has nothing but his will to assert
even his good-will
it is always bullying. Bolshevism is one sort of bullying, capitalism another: and liberty is a change of chains.

D.H. Lawrence

#12. Without both genes and environments, there are no outcomes.

David Epstein

#13. TRUMP IS EPSTEIN IN DISGUISE!

David Howard

#14. Religions - most of them, anyway - had promoted self-effacement, sacrifice, restraint.

Nancy Kress

#15. One of the issues with our field is when we've looked at activity, and what controls activity, we've forgotten that we know very clearly there are biological mechanisms that actually influence people to be active or not" Lightfoot says. "You can have a predisposition to be a couch potato

David Epstein