Quotes worth reading

Together, you can get the whole world singing a brand-new, very long made-up word! Together, you can turn life into energy, character, and emotion!

100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100— Dick Van Dyke with Tal McTheniaNon-Fiction

The single most powerful item in our preventive tool kit is exercise, which has a two-pronged impact on Alzheimer’s disease risk: it helps maintain glucose homeostasis, and it improves the health of our vasculature.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The problem is that we’re still not very good at detecting cancer in these early stages—yet.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Habits are a double-edged sword. They can work for you or against you, which is why understanding the details is essential.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

How can we love and nourish our fellow beings, human and nonhumans alike, to improve our collective life here together?

100 RULES FOR LIVING TO 100— Dick Van Dyke with Tal McTheniaNon-Fiction

But some scientists have begun to openly question the notion that amyloid causes all cases of Alzheimer’s disease, citing these drug failures above all.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

If the plaque does become unstable, eroding or even rupturing, you’ve really got problems. The damaged plaque may ultimately cause the formation of a clot, which can narrow and ultimately block the lumen of the blood vessel—or worse, break free and cause a heart attack or stroke.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

The idea is to make your habits as easy as possible to start. Anyone can meditate for one minute, read one page, or put one item of clothing away.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

The important thing here is that Marti not only accepted the “No”; she searched it out and embraced it.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

The real value of anything depends on what vantage point you’re looking at it from.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

The overall mortality rate for Americans ages 100 and older is a staggering 36 percent, meaning that if Grandma is 101, she has about a one-in-three chance of dying in the next twelve months.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

War is a quite complex human behavior, and people who study it don’t even agree on the most fundamental causes—about whether war is inherent to humans, or cultural, or ecological in the sense of depending on the environment.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

The trick to spotting feelings is to pay close attention to changes people undergo when they respond to external events. Most often, those events are your words.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

People get hung up on 'How much?' But don’t deal with numbers in isolation. That leads to bargaining, a series of rigid positions defined by emotional views of fairness and pride.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

The Sun already spends most of its time blasting out hot ions in every direction. Earth’s magnetosphere and atmosphere protect you from most of these.

A CITY ON MARS— Kelly Weinersmith and Zach WeinersmithNon-Fiction

Fat in and of itself is not bad. It’s where we should put surplus calories. That’s how we evolved.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

In my experience, most people find this to be the easiest way to reduce their caloric intake, by focusing on when they are eating rather than how much and/or what they are eating.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction

Named after Ulysses, the hero of The Odyssey, who told his sailors to tie him to the mast of the ship so that he could hear the enchanting song of the Sirens but wouldn’t be able to steer the ship toward them and crash on the rocks.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

All negotiations are defined by a network of subterranean desires and needs. Don’t let yourself be fooled by the surface.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

Experience told me all I had to do was keep him talking and he’d come around. The same way I’d get back whatever I put out, he was getting back whatever he was putting out, so I was with him on this.

NEVER SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE— Chris Voss with Tahl RazSelf-Help / Business

Create an environment where doing the right thing is as easy as possible.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

We are more likely to repeat a behavior when the experience is satisfying.

ATOMIC HABITS— James ClearSelf-Help / Business

Wes Bennett had bought me shoes. No boy had ever bought anything for me, yet here was Wes, the antagonistic neighbor boy, spending his own money because he thought I needed Chucks.

BETTER THAN THE MOVIES— Lynn PainterYoung Adult

Good swimmers learn to overcome this imbalance with training. But if you never take off the wetsuit, you will never learn how to fix this problem.

OUTLIVE— Peter Attia with Bill GiffordNon-Fiction