Quotes About Hyman

#1. But not so odd a name, after all, if you've ever read through the phone directory, with its Hyman Diddlebockers and Sasparilla Greenleafs. I read through the phone book once, never mind when, and it satisfied a deep need in me to realize how many people aren't called Smith.

Sylvia Plath

#2. Flo Hyman became America's best-known volleyball player with a faulty aorta, but she did not know it.

George Vecsey

#3. The job has not been done to Admiral Hyman Rickover's specifications. He admonished, "Nature is not as forgiving as Christ.

Bernd Heinrich

#4. So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime.

Robert Lacey

#5. There is only one thing wrong about the Flo Hyman Award: it came to be named for the Old Lady of Volleyball much too soon.

George Vecsey

#6. Any one detail, followed through to its source, will usually reveal the general state of readiness of the whole organization.

Hyman Rickover

#7. The best advice is to avoid foods with health claims on the label, or better yet avoid foods with labels in the first place.

Mark Hyman

#8. While pimples are not as simple as too much milk or sugar in your diet, both have a significant impact. Nutritional deficiencies as well as excesses can worsen acne.

Mark Hyman

#9. Most schools have only a microwave or deep fryer, hardly the tools needed to feed our children real, fresh food.

Mark Hyman

#10. The key to creating health is figuring out the cause of the problem and then providing the right conditions for the body and soul to thrive. It isn't taking another medication.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#11. I don't need the fillers, additives, excessive amounts of sugars, fats, salts and other measures taken to taint the natural goodness of real food.

Mark Hyman

#12. The news is what it is. It's going to be good, it's going to be positive, it's going to be negative. It's going to have all sorts of effects on candidates always.

Mark E. Hyman

#13. Placing too much emphasis on a yes/no diagnosis, meaning you either have a disease or you don't, can lead even the most well-meaning physicians to miss underlying causes and early warning signs of illness.

Mark Hyman

#14. The Devil is in the details, but so is salvation.

Hyman G. Rickover

#15. One in four kids have either pre-diabetes or diabetes - what I like to call diabesity. How did this happen?

Mark Hyman

#16. The man in charge must concern himself with details. If he does not consider them important, neither will his subordinates.

Hyman Rickover

#17. We want to put sportsmanship back in the equation.

Eric Hyman

#18. It is just physics - who can argue with Newton and the first law of thermodynamics?

Mark Hyman

#19. Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.

Mark Hyman

#20. Heart disease is not a Lipitor, Crestor or even an "anacetrapib" deficiency. It is a complex end result of multiple factors driven by our diet, fitness level, stress, and other lifestyle factors such as smoking, social connections, and, increasingly, environmental toxins.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#21. I eyed her and shrugged my shoulders, wondering how on earth she thought this meal was good, but her wafer-thin body gave her away; not once in her life had she eaten good-tasting food.

Gwyn Hyman Rubio

#22. It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.

Hyman Taubman

#23. The most powerful medicine is at the end of your fork, not at the bottom of your pill bottle. Food is more powerful than anything in your medicine cabinet!

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#24. Nutrients are not drugs and they can't be studied as drugs. They are part of a biological system where all nutrients work as a team to support your biochemical processes.

Mark Hyman

#25. Those involved with practical reactors, humbled by their experiences, speak less and worry more.

Hyman Rickover

#26. Tricking your brain into thinking you are getting something sweet plays dirty tricks on your metabolism.

Mark Hyman

#27. The way most doctors practice medicine right now isn't working.

Mark Hyman

#28. Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

Mark Hyman

#29. The New Health Rules is the new manifesto for how to eat well, feel good, and live long. If you ever wondered what's really true about the things that work and the things that don't, look no further.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#30. Stay away from milk. It is nature's perfect food - but only if you are a calf.

Mark Hyman

#31. A child is being properly educated only when he is learning to become independent of his parents.

Hyman Rickover

#32. Optimism and stupidity are nearly synonymous.

Hyman G. Rickover

#33. Knowing something for oneself or for communication to an expert colleague is not the same as knowing it for explanation to a student.

Hyman Bass

#34. They all have excellent resumes ... So what I'm trying to find out is how they will behave under pressure.

Hyman G. Rickover

#35. Lifestyle change and changes in diet work faster, better and more cheaply than any medication and are as effective or more effective than gastric bypass without any side effects or long-term complications.

Mark Hyman

#36. You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.

Mark Hyman

#37. Paradoxically Americans are becoming both more obese and more nutrient deficient at the same time. Obese children eating processed foods are nutrient depleted and increasingly get scurvy and rickets, diseases we thought were left behind in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Mark Hyman

#38. The body is one integrated system, not a collection of organs divided up by medical specialties. The medicine of the future connects everything.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#39. There are ways to cut cravings by naturally balancing your blood sugar.

Mark Hyman

#40. Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.

Hyman Rickover

#41. Success breeds a disregard of the possibility of failure.

Hyman Minsky

#42. A system under which it takes three men to check what one is doing is not control; it is systematic strangulation.

Hyman Rickover

#43. It is food - we now know that food is information, not just calories, and that it can upgrade your biologic software. The majority of chronic disease is primarily a food borne illness. We ate ourselves into this problem and we have to eat ourselves out of it.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#44. How the hell are you supposed to know what God wants you to do with your life, eh?

Hyman Rickover

#45. Good ideas and innovations must be driven into existence by courage and patience.

Hyman Rickover

#46. Success teaches us nothing; only failure teaches.

Hyman G. Rickover

#47. We need a grassroots movement and government policies and programs to change the food landscape and the built environment to give our children a chance to have happy, healthy successful lives.

Mark Hyman

#48. You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

Mark Hyman

#49. As a guide to engineering ethics, I should like to commend to you a liberal adaptation of the injunction contained in the oath of Hippocrates that the professional man do nothing that will harm his client.

Hyman Rickover

#50. My advice is to give up stevia, aspartame, sucralose, sugar alcohols like xylitol and malitol, and all of the other heavily-used and marketed sweeteners unless you want to slow down your metabolism, gain weight, and become an addict.

Mark Hyman

#51. Christmas is not only where you find it; it's what you make of it.

Trina Schart Hyman

#52. Just eat less and exercise more.

Mark Hyman

#53. Glutathione is also the most critical and integral part of your detoxification system. All the toxins stick onto glutathione, which then carries them into the bile and the stool - and out of your body.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#54. While weight loss is important, what's more important is the quality of food you put in your body - food is information that quickly changes your metabolism and genes.

Mark Hyman

#55. We have to pay close attention to what we see, and be ready to work with the unexpected according to the basic principles of systems biology and medicine.

Mark Hyman

#56. If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.

Hyman G. Rickover

#57. More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute for rational thought.

Hyman G. Rickover

#58. Chronic disease is a foodborne illness. We ate our way into this mess, and we must eat our way out.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#59. We bury the men who do the nation's creative work under layers of administrators and mountains of memoranda. We shrivel creativity by endless frustrations.

Hyman Rickover

#60. Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

Hyman G. Rickover

#61. In Greek mythology, Antaeus was a giant who was strong as long as he had contact with the earth. When he was lifted from the earth he lost strength. So it is with engineers. They must not become isolated from the real world.

Hyman Rickover

#62. The Point, not unlike the Communist Chinese, the ACLU abhors individual religious freedom, and it supports only those civil liberties that fit its narrow political agenda.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#63. Trying to make things work in government is sometimes like trying to sew a button on a custard pie.

Hyman Rickover

#64. Pedagogy, like language itself, can either liberate or imprison ideas, inspire of suffocate constructive thinking.

Hyman Bass

#65. The devil is in the details, and everything we do in the military is a detail.

Hyman Rickover

#66. In all fairness to the auction companies ? most companies are not car experts, they are marketers. I caution buyers to make sure that they have done their homework before they raise their hand and not after.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#67. The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#68. Above all, we should bear in mind that our liberty is not an end in itself; it is a means to win respect for human dignity for all classes of our society.

Hyman Rickover

#69. Our typical Western diet is full of inflammatory fats - saturated fats, trans fats, too many omega-6, inflammatory, processed vegetable oils like soy and corn oils. These increase IGF-1 and stimulate pimple follicles.

Mark Hyman

#70. Shrinking someone's stomach to the size of a walnut with surgery is one way to battle obesity and diabetes and may be lifesaving for a few, but it doesn't address the underlying causes.

Mark Hyman

#71. Responsiblity is a unique concept. It can only reside and inhere in a single individual. You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you. You may disclaim it, but you cannot divest yourself of it.

Hyman Rickover

#72. The tools of the academic designer are a piece of paper and a pencil with an eraser. If a mistake is made, it can always be erased and changed. If the practical-reactor designer errs, he wears the mistake around his neck; it cannot be erased. Everyone sees it.

Hyman Rickover

#73. Sit down before fact with an open mind. Be prepared to give up every preconceived notion. Follow humbly wherever and to whatever abyss Nature leads or you learn nothing. Don't push out figures when facts are going in the opposite direction.

Hyman G. Rickover

#74. I have a son. I love my son. I want everything that I do to be so safe that I would be happy to have my son operating it. That's my fundamental rule.

Hyman Rickover

#75. It is a human inclination to hope things will work out, despite evidence or doubt to the contrary. A successful manager must resist this temptation.

Hyman Rickover

#76. All medicine comes down to this: Find out what's bugging you; get rid of it. Find out what you need; get it. The body does the rest.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#77. In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

Mark Hyman

#78. Thoughts arising from practical experience may be a bridle or a spur.

Hyman Rickover

#79. Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther.

Hyman Rickover

#80. The body maintains balance in only a handful of ways. At the end of the day, disease occurs when these basic systems are out of whack.

Mark Hyman

#81. It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.

Mark Hyman

#82. To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools.

Hyman Rickover

#83. All new ideas begin in a non-conforming mind that questions some tenet of the conventional wisdom.

Hyman Rickover

#84. I have the charisma of the chipmunk. I never have thought I was smart. I thought the people I dealt with were dumb.

Hyman George Rickover

#85. Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.

Trina Schart Hyman

#86. When it becomes a revolutionary act to eat real food, we are in trouble.

Mark Hyman

#87. Today there are not even enough fruits and vegetables in this country to allow all Americans to follow the government guidelines to eat five to nine servings a day.

Mark Hyman

#88. In addition to single-gene genetic disorders, there are just five causes of all disease: poor diet, chronic stress, microbes, toxins, and allergens, all of which wash over our DNA causing changes in our gene expression, and turning off or on different genes and messages that affect our metabolism.

Mark Hyman

#89. Good ideas are not adopted automatically. They must be driven into practice with courageous patience.

Hyman Rickover

#90. The network and local TV angle of broadcast television has received a black eye for not properly debating within the news issues that should be debated, instead of shuffling them of to television advertising.

Mark E. Hyman

#91. Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.

Mark Hyman

#92. If you want to get healthy, you just might not want to go to a doctor. You might instead, go to church.

Mark Hyman

#93. Yet an estimated 99 percent of people who have a problem with eating gluten don't even know it. They ascribe their ill health or symptoms to something else-not gluten sensitivity, which is 100 percent curable.

Mark Hyman, M.D.

#94. When news comes out, it ought to be reported. There shouldn't be a moratorium based on legitimate news, just because it may or may not affect one candidate or the other. That's just absurd.

Mark E. Hyman

#95. When doing a job - any job - one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever.

Hyman G. Rickover

#96. We need community action and policies to support healthy communities.

Mark Hyman

#97. Seems you can't outsmart Mother Nature.

Mark Hyman

#98. Your social networks may matter more than your genetic networks. But if your friends have healthy habits you are more likely to as well. So get healthy friends.

Mark Hyman

#99. Art cannot be above the battle.

Hyman Taubman

#100. Free discussion requires an atmosphere unembarrassed by any suggestion of authority or even respect.

Hyman Rickover