Hormesis Quotes

#1. It is said that the best horses lose when they compete with slower ones and win against better rivals. Undercompensation from the absence of a stressor,inverse hormesis, absence of challenge, degrades the best of the best.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#2. All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean
or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.

Arthur B. Robinson

#3. I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more about it. I write good books; I write great titles though.

Larry Winget

#4. In the midst of prosperity, the challenge for believers is to handle wealth in such a way that it acts as a blessing, not a curse.

Randy Alcorn

#5. Well, I've been blessed with good hair, or at least some people think it is. It is the way it is, sort of does what it wants to. So, yeah, I guess it is [a metaphor for your views on art and life].

David Lynch

#6. I don't really set out to please anybody, and I don't think I ever have. I have occasionally been encouraged to try to write something specifically for the purpose of releasing it as a single to get radio play. Those are not my best songs, as a rule.

Ian Anderson

#7. The point is, life has to be endured, and lived. But how to live it is the problem.

Daphne Du Maurier

#8. Count your blessings

Haruki Murakami

#9. I managed Hewlett Packard through the worst technology downturn in 25 years, the dotcom bust.

Carly Fiorina

#10. There are the choices that we make and the consequences, that's all.

Karyn Bosnak

#11. The reality is he's a specialist because eight years without a piece of silverware ... that is failure.

Jose Mourinho

#12. I had a tough career. I then resolved to find peace. And, I finally found Islam.

Nicolas Anelka

#13. The world is God's language to us.

Simone Weil

#14. Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.

Anais Nin

#15. To bond to any animal was to promise oneself that future pain

Robin Hobb

#16. Woody Allen is a genius. His films are wonderful. He's poetic, but he's also a critic. He artfully steps back from a social setting and criticizes it without - I suspect - without letting himself be vulnerable to it.

Mel Brooks