Hoebel Quotes

#1. When you eat sugar, according to research by Bartley Hoebel of Princeton University, it triggers a response in the same part of the brain - known as the "reward center" - that is targeted by cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and other addictive substances.

Anonymous

#2. I give myself strength by staying away from any music.

Alannah Myles

#3. What daily healthy intake are you doing for your body? I personally like Shakeology.

Brett Hoebel

#4. Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.

Brett Hoebel

#5. You took my life and Oliver's life and made them into this book. You made us into monsters, both of us.

Mackenzi Lee

#6. There are two types of pain: pain that hurts you and pain that changes you.

Brett Hoebel

#7. It's the cross-training that's key. It doesn't let your body adapt to one stimulus too much and it keeps your workouts exciting.

Brett Hoebel

#8. Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

Brett Hoebel

#9. Every profession has its traditions and its traditionalists. But the traditionalists in the pulpit are much more certain than the others that the Lord is on their side.

Reinhold Niebuhr

#10. You want to be burning calories after you work out. The problem becomes for most people - it's not pleasant, it's painful. You have to have the pain tolerance to be able to deal with that, which a lot of people do not.

Brett Hoebel

#11. You need to put what you learn into practice and do it over and over again until it's a habit. I always say, 'Seeing is not believing. Doing is believing.' There is a lot to learn about fitness, nutrition and emotions, but once you do, you can master them instead of them mastering you.

Brett Hoebel

#12. My approach to training changed dramatically throughout my experience as one of the trainers on 'The Biggest Loser.' Getting to know each person was an important reminder that to get the body physically fit, you must first get mentally and emotionally 'fit.'

Brett Hoebel

#13. Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.

Brett Hoebel

#14. At the surface, many people's goals are to lose weight, tone up, feel better, etc. But superficial goals get superficial results that usually fade. Dig a little deeper, and the 'why' is usually unveiled: to be more confident, to be more happy, to feel sexy again.

Brett Hoebel

#15. I practiced drawing all the time and became very interested in it. If I was at a meeting that wasn't getting anywhere - like the one where Carl Rogers came to Caltech to discuss with us whether Caltech should develop a psychology department - I would draw the other people.

Richard P. Feynman

#16. For my part, I am almost contented just now, and very thankful. Gratitude is a divine emotion: it fills the heart, but not to bursting: it warms it, but not to fever. I like to taste leisurely of bliss: devoured in haste, I do not know its flavour.

Charlotte Bronte

#17. If you don't have an emotional connection to why you are trying to accomplish your goals, the odds are you won't reach them or will quit trying.

Brett Hoebel

#18. Salt is one of the flavors that makes food taste good - salt, sugar and fat. So it's a natural thing for all chefs and cooks to add salt, because it enhances the flavor of the food. If you go out to eat, I guarantee you're going to be eating a lot of salted foods that you are going to have no idea.

Brett Hoebel

#19. If I could give one tip for people - it's not an exercise or nutrition regimen. It's to walk your talk and believe in yourself, because at the end of the day, the dumbbell and diet don't get you in shape. It's your accountability to your word.

Brett Hoebel

#20. Courtesy is fine and heaven knows we need more and more of it in a rude and frenetic world, but mechanized courtesy is as pallid as Pablum ... in fact, it isn't even courtesy.

Cornelia Otis Skinner

#21. Rev it High. Rev it low. I'm strong, committed, and ready to go!

Brett Hoebel

#22. [T]he shaman treats all realities as subjective, much like some modern theoretical physicists are beginning to do. In such a viewpoint the question of whether an experience is real or not makes no sense, because the answer is yes and no, depending on your point of view.

Serge King

#23. What I was really researching was not how elephants deal with loss but how humans can't. And

Jodi Picoult