"Essentially, we humans live well enough and long enough, and are smart enough, to generate all sorts of stressful events purely in our heads."

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Source : Robert M. Sapolsky (2004). “Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: The Acclaimed Guide to Stress, Stress-Related Diseases, and Coping - Now Revised and Updated”, p.4, Macmillan

Robert M. Sapolsky

#Smart Quotes #Long Quotes #Events Quotes

“Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.”
“It is important for this country to make its people so obsessed with their own liberal individualism that they do not have time to think about a world larger than self.”
“Virtue is persecuted by the wicked more than it is loved by the good.”
“How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?”
“I approach the heptathlon and life in the same way in that I not only want to be good at what I am doing, but I want it to mean something.”
“I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy.”
“A student's mentality in learning martial arts is to overcome one's problems.”
“As a producer you can be more objective about the songs because you didn't write them.”

Source : "Crooked Fingers". Interview with Alison Fields, pitchfork.com. March 1, 2002.

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