Top 71 Quotes About Lifespan
#1. In 1820, the average lifespan was just 26 years. Twenty-six years!
Peter Diamandis
#2. Being a CEO used to be something you did for 15 years. Now you do it for five, maybe. The lifespan is getting shorter and shorter, regardless if you are a man or a woman.
Michel Martin
#3. The human resource is limited to the duration of his/ her lifespan, while time is unlimited.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. Nothing produced can be allowed to maintain a lifespan longer than what can be endured in order to continue cyclical consumption.
Peter Joseph
#5. The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going to be paying benefits for 13-15 years. That's one of the reasons why this pyramid scheme isn't working.
Joe Heck
#7. Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
S. Jay Olshansky
#8. Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.
S. Jay Olshansky
#9. The only way to live several lives in one lifespan is to write stories.
Vishwas Mudagal
#10. As James Lovelock writes, 'Mother Earth' is now an old lady in her sixties, no longer as resilient as she once was. With our conscious actions, we are now measurably shortening her lifespan.
Mark Lynas
#11. Books exceed authors' lifespan.
Toba Beta
#12. It is unlikely that changes in telomeres are influencing the lifespan of the worm. That is because telomeres only shorten when cells divide. Most of the cells of the worm stop dividing when the worm becomes an adult.
Cynthia Kenyon
#13. If lifespan jumps by 30 or 40 years, that has enormous implications.
Joshua Lederberg
#15. Korum couldn't understand [Connor's] placidity. If Mia had blushed at the touch of another man, that man's lifespan would've been numbered in minutes.
Anna Zaires
#16. SpaceX is only 12 years old now. Between now and 2040, the company's lifespan will have tripled. If we have linear improvement in technology, as opposed to logarithmic, then we should have a significant base on Mars, perhaps with thousands or tens of thousands of people.
Elon Musk
#17. I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.
George Saunders
#18. Going meat-free can make a huge difference. Studies show that vegetarians are, on average, 10 to 20 pounds lighter than meat-eaters and that a vegetarian diet reduces our risk of heart disease by 40 percent and adds seven or more years to our lifespan.
Ingrid Newkirk
#19. A person's Acts of #Kindness far outlives their lifespan,for they leave behind a true, meaningful legacy.
Michael Levy
#20. Human lifespan used to be 30 years, 25 years. But there's no basic, fundamental reason why it has to be short.
Craig Venter
#21. Mitochondria, as we have seen, are only passed on in the egg, so all 13 mitochondrial genes come from our mothers. If these genes really do influence lifespan, and we can only inherit them from our mothers, then our own lifespan should reflect that of our mothers but not our fathers.
Nick Lane
#22. What was the lifespan of these improbable loves? An hour. A week. A few months at best. The end was a natural thing, like the seasons, like getting older, fruit turning. That was the saddest part - there was no one to blame and no way to reverse
Miranda July
#23. 950 years. After the flood, the lifespan
Craig Hines
#24. It made no sense, a lifespan of a few weeks did not add up to an annual migration of many thousand miles. How did they learn where to go?
Barbara Kingsolver
#25. The prodigy who fades is an old story. But the prodigy who sets a high mark when young and then hits that mark, or exceeds it, over and over again, for a full lifespan, is truly remarkable, and worth celebrating.
John Baird
#26. Growing new organs of the body as they wear out, extending the human lifespan? What's not to like?
Michio Kaku
#27. A human lifespan is less than a thousand months long. You need to make some time to think how to live it.
A.C. Grayling
#28. A wedding gown entails multilayering of expensive specialty fabrics for an outfit whose useful lifespan may come and go in a single afternoon. Much like a bomb suit.
Mary Roach
#29. Imagine that: If you could change one of the genes in an experiment, an aging gene, maybe you could slow down aging and extend lifespan.
Cynthia Kenyon
#30. But seen through a long lens, peacemaking founded on 'forgetting' appears to have a limited lifespan.
Erna Paris
#31. The Yellow River is boundless
flowing east without cease
on and on never clearing
while everyone's lifespan ends
and ifyou would ride the clouds
how will you grow wings
unless while your hair is black
you make an effort moving or still
Han-shan
#32. In the world of computers and just devices in general, the lifespan, or the shelf life, is relatively short just because technology moves so fast and the costs drop so quickly and the power, whether it's computing power or memory rises very, very quickly.
Nicholas Negroponte
#33. If shortening my lifespan by a year would kill these guys, I'd do it...
Nico Tanigawa
#35. The fact is that nothing in gerontology even comes close to fulfilling the promise of dramatically extended lifespan, in spite of bold claims to the contrary that by now should sound familiar.
S. Jay Olshansky
#36. Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.
Michael Eisner
#37. Ingesting divine cinnabar will make your lifespan inexhaustible. You will last as long as heaven and earth, be able to travel on clouds and ride dragons, and ascend at will to the Heaven of Highest Clarity
Ge Hong
#38. When I'm working in finite serials, I always think in terms of the entire book rather than the individual episode because, by far, the vaster sector of the project's lifespan will be in complete book form rather than the singles.
Warren Ellis
#39. The time is coming when man will be able to determine the length of his lifespan by controlling his diet.
Henry Ford
#40. Anything you adopt temporarily only begets temporary results, and fluctuating your weight up and down is not lifespan favorable.
Joel Fuhrman
#41. Autobiographical memory: Memory across the lifespan for both specific events and self-related information.
Alan Baddeley
#42. You can't have it all, all at once. Who - man or woman - has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#43. Surfing is kind of a good metaphor for the rest of life.
The extremely good stuff - chocolate and great sex and weddings and hilarious jokes - fills a minute portion of an adult lifespan.
The rest of life is the paddling: work, paying bills, flossing, getting sick, dying.
Jaimal Yogis
#44. Our physical health is dependent upon energy. We have a short lifespan compared with past Yuga's. We are made up of energy lines. The reason people lived longer is because there was less negative energy in the world.
Frederick Lenz
#45. The rock, for its part, is not even aware of our existence because we are alive for only a brief instant of its lifespan. To it, we are like flashes in the dark.
Michael Crichton
#46. Before I chose Dauntless ... I felt assured of my long lifespan, if nothing else. Now there are no reassurances except that where I go, I go because I choose to.
Veronica Roth
#47. We also have people dying longer, we are able to keep people alive without much quality of life in many cases. We haven't done a great job of making healthspan match up with lifespan, which is both miserable and unbelievably costly - and frightening.
Ken Dychtwald
#48. The brevity of a human lifespan tormented them as never before, and their hearts soared above the vault of time to join with their descendants and plunge into blood and fire in the icy cold of space, the eventual meeting place for the souls of all soldiers. *
Liu Cixin
#49. The number of people with HIV receiving Medicare benefits has grown over time, reflecting growth in the size of the of the HIV positive population in the U.S. but also an increased lifespan for people with HIV due to antiretroviral medicines and other treatment advances.
David Mixner
#50. Tech companies have a finite lifespan: For the successful ones, an IPO or exit is never more than a few years off. But by recruiting locally and developing homegrown talent, companies can build something that remains after they're gone. People, skills and a culture of innovation persist.
Ryan Holmes
#51. Dogs have such a limited lifespan to teach us about friendship and loyalty...perhaps they know we have a short span of attention.
Dan Cohen
#52. Interpersonal experience shapes the mind as it continues to develop throughout the lifespan ... Interactions with the environment, especially relationships with other people, directly shape the development of the brain's structure and function.
Daniel J. Siegel
#53. The Great Culling of the human race already has begun. It is being done through chemicals added to our drinking water, food, medicines, and the air we breathe - chemicals that have the known effect of reducing fertility and shortening lifespan.
G. Edward Griffin
#54. To put it simply--our brain span should match our lifespan.
Meryl Comer
#55. In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan, to watch the great impersonal universe at work again and again,
Mary Ruefle
#56. They say that the average lifespan of an SVU detective is 4 years. People can't do it longer than that because it's so difficult.
Mariska Hargitay
#57. Sedentary culture is the goal of civilization. It means the end of its lifespan and brings about its corruption.
Ibn Khaldun
#58. And I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. It could be that it would take me 12 more books at six years each to get it - which means I would have to live to be 126. Which I fully intend to do, of course.
George Saunders
#59. The last thing you ever want to do is extend the period of frailty and disability and make people unhealthy for a longer time period. So lifespan extension in and of itself should not be the goal of medicine, nor should it be the goal of public health, nor should it be the goal of aging science.
S. Jay Olshansky
#60. According to Abkhazian custom, the time you spend with guests around the table doesn't count toward your lifespan because you're drinking wine and enjoying yourself.
Svetlana Alexievich
#61. He looked like he'd see the lifespan of the human race a thousand times, and had swallowed its history of violence, of sadness, of loss.
Quil Carter
#62. I'll never be as old as someone older than me, but I can be older than them if I outlive their lifespan.
Jarod Kintz
#63. I am confident that when I get really old, the human lifespan will be extended.
Jens Voigt
#64. The Japanese have a long lifespan in part because they eat different forms of algae.
Homaro Cantu
#65. There's no point in fighting for a woman that is rude and boring, just because she's hot. Such woman shortens your lifespan.
Daniel Marques
#66. The actual lifespan of a thought is very short ... unless you believe it, trust it, or take direction from it.. Then it can last a lifetime. Be choosy. Pick the ones with which to do this.
Charles F. Glassman
#67. History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.
Gustav Stresemann
#68. I was struck by the image of Daddy still dressed in that same plaid shirt and undershirt with the bloodstains below the neck, the one I had first seen him wearing in the jail the previous day.
Earl B. Russell
#69. [It] is hardly possible to maintain seriously that the evil done by science is not altogether outweighed by the good. For example, if ten million lives were lost in every war, the net effect of science would still have been to increase the average length of life.
G.H. Hardy
#70. Many things can prolong your life, but only wisdom can save it.
Neel Burton
#71. Money does not buy you freedom. Time does.
J.R. Rim
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