John Ratey famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.
-- John Ratey

#Moving #Play #Brain
Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.
-- John Ratey

#Memories #Exercise #Brain
Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being.
-- John Ratey

#Exercise #Feelings #Brain
We can know ourselves only because we can remember.
-- John Ratey

#Chaos #Remember
At every level, from the microcellular to the psychological, exercise not only wards off the ill effects of chronic stress; it can also reverse them. Studies show that if researchers exercise rats that have been chronically stressed, that activity makes the hippocampus grow back to its preshriveled state. The mechanisms by which exercise changes how we think and feel are so much more effective than donuts, medicines, and wine. When you say you feel less stressed out after you go for a swim, or even a fast walk, you are.
-- John Ratey

#Stress #Wine #Exercise
Exercise is the single most powerful tool you have to optimize your brain functionâ€¦exercise has a profound impact on cognitive abilities and mental health. It is simply one of the best treatments we have for most psychiatric problems.
-- John Ratey

#Powerful #Exercise #Impact
Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.
-- John Ratey

#Brain #Minutes
If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.
-- John Ratey

#Morning #Exercise #Focus

Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.
God requires no person to spend his or her life reiterating the gospel to people who will not receive it. He wants everyone to have an opportunity to hear. Then He would have us move on to other areas. The mistake of the church has been that she sits down to convert all the people in one country to the neglect of the great masses who have never had the chance to hear the gospel - not even once!
My co-founder Dylan Smith and I left our junior year of college to move to the Bay Area. To the horror of our friends' parents, we actually had two other friends drop out of college to work on the product. The four of us were just working non-stop growing Box.
It didn't mean forever but for right now I wanted Rush to be my first. He wouldn't be my last. A stop I might never forget or get over. That was what scared me the most. Not being able to move on.
Extremely large greens breed slovenly play. When any green ceases to command respect, it loses its value as a test of that rarest of all strokes, the shot home.
If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious.
The stuff that I write doesn't work very well as background music. You have to watch it from beginning to end and pay attention as if you were watching a play.
Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,
Anyone who's got a guitar, you like to pick it up. I can play a couple of songs, some '50s rock and roll, a bit of Elvis. That's it, really - I'm not a musician, I'm not a singer.
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

John Ratey famous quotes

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