Doctors are especially skilled at a few things. Prescribing medications? Absolutely. Performing surgery? For sure. Nutrition and weight loss? No, definitely not.

When we lift weights regularly, we provide a mechanical loading stimulus to the muscle fibers of the high-threshold motor units every week. When we stop lifting weights, these muscle fibers stop receiving the regular stimulus that they need, and they begin to atrophy.

As an introvert, it’s my right to live my life without being limited by some dictionary definition that says I’m a shy, reticent person all the time. I can be confident, outgoing, and aggressive if I want. Admitting that I’m an introvert has given me the freedom to exhibit introverted behavior

Going to a major tournament, having that buzz - it's hard to put into words. It's a dream to go there, and to play. It's the biggest thing you can achieve in your career, and to go again would be a dream.

You know, every time it comes, every time that light comes on or every time that camera comes on, every time that microphone comes on, the Mac Man seek and destroy.

Poe was a student of many things, and among those things he read and referred to in his work was the Bible.

I want to work with producers who are unique and have a different sound.

When I go to Africa and spend more time there with people who are the least of the least, those in desperate situations, I am broken by it. But I also find people with so much more joy and freedom living with nothing than I see walking down the streets of my own community here in Tennessee.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

My school days were the happiest days of my life; which should give you some indication of the misery I've endured over the past twenty-five years.

The Koch brothers spent millions against me.

Every 15, 20, 25 years, a new rock and roll record needs to come out and a new rock and roll band needs to come out.

I lost a lot of territory I really enjoyed having, but there was no doubt I had to do it to help Democrats.

My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.

I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

When I was 4 or 5, I attended my father's concerts. He very often played Strauss waltzes as encores and I saw something happening with the audience.

Let's make sure we're doing what we can in our own backyard to gain our energy independence and to create American jobs with American energy.

You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.

My audiences get younger all the time.

Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.

I try to work out with my personal trainer for an hour, four times a week - we mainly concentrate on weights and running. If I'm on the road I sometimes do DVD work-outs in my hotel room - P90X and Insanity are a couple of my favourites.

Paraphrase, in the sense of summary, is as indispensable to the novel-critic as close analysis is to the critic of lyric poetry. The natural deduction is that novels are paraphrasable whereas poems are not. But this is a false deduction because close analysis is itself a disguised form of paraphrase.

In any situation that calls for you to persuade, convince or manage someone or a group of people to do something, the ability to tell a purposeful story will be your secret sauce. Telling to win through purposeful stories is situation, industry, gender, demographic, and psychographic-agnostic. It's an all-purpose, everyone wins tool.

I'm really hopeful about the future of space exploration and human spaceflight. Civilization as we know it has been defined by exploration. You know, we need to go off and find out what's around the next corner and what's just beyond what we already know. It's part of our being; it's part of our moral fiber to go off and explore.

It pisses me off, people are idiots, but what are you going to do? The world is full of idiots. That's why we'll never have flying cars. People don't know how to drive.