Paul Dudley White famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world.
-- Paul Dudley White

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I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Wish #Tobacco
Let us bequeath our children more than the gadgets that surround us. If bicycling can be restored to the daily life of all Americans, it can be a vital step toward rebuilding health and vigor in all of us.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Children #Vigor #Gadgets
We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Practice #Medicine #Important
I favor parking a few miles from the office and walking to work. You get the benefit of exercise and besides it is easier to get a parking space.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Exercise #Space #Office
Physical fitness is vital for the optimal function of the brain, for retardation of the onset of serious arteriosclerosis which is beginning to appear in early adult life, and for longevity, and a useful and healthy life for our older citizens.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Healthy #Brain #Adults
Walking is easiest, you don't need a lot of apparatus. Just shoe leather and good feet.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Shoes #Feet #Needs
You get most out of walking by going along briskly, swinging the arms and breathing deeply. It also helps promote the circulation of blood to the brain. The Greek philosophers promenaded as they philosophized.
-- Paul Dudley White

#Blood #Breathing #Greek

Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color. In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.
You know how some people are unlucky in love? I was always unlucky in exercise. I'd get into a relationship with a workout program or guru, we'd go steady for a few intense months, and then we'd have a really ugly breakup.
Clearly, society has a tremendous stake in insisting on a woman's natural fitness for the career of mother: the alternatives are all too expensive.
Every patient carries his or her own doctor inside.

Paul Dudley White famous quotes

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