Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
The key to making healthy decisions is to respect your future self. Honor him or her. Treat him or her like you would treat a friend or a loved one.
A. J. Jacobs
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
A. J. Jacobs
Age: 56
Born: 1968
Born: March 20
Journalist
Writer
New York City
New York
AJ Jacobs
Arnold Steven Jacobs
Jr.
Honey K Balani
Honey K. Balani
A.J. Jacobs
A J Jacobs
Arnold Stephen Jacobs
Jr.
Like
Friend
Respect
Loved
Treat
Decision
Treats
Future
Decisions
Making
Keys
Self
Honor
Would
Healthy
More quotes by A. J. Jacobs
Behavior shapes beliefs.
A. J. Jacobs
I have little shame, no dignity – all in the name of a better cause.
A. J. Jacobs
Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.
A. J. Jacobs
Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A. J. Jacobs
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years.
A. J. Jacobs
I thought religion would eventually wither away and we'd all be worshiping at the altar of science.
A. J. Jacobs
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
A. J. Jacobs
I've started to look at life differently. When you're thanking God for every little you - every meal, every time you wake up, every time you take a sip of water - you can't help but be more thankful for life itself, for the unlikely and miraculous fact that you exist at all.
A. J. Jacobs
I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.
A. J. Jacobs
The World Health Organization ... estimated that 1.6 million years of healthy living are lost every year in Europe because of noise pollution.
A. J. Jacobs
More people die on a per mile basis from drunk walking than from drunk driving.
A. J. Jacobs
It's hard to be in a bad mood when you're walking around looking like you're about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
A. J. Jacobs
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
A. J. Jacobs
After a while, if you're committed, you start to believe in the things in which you're praying. It's just cognitive dissonance. You can't live a completely religious life and not start to have it sink in.
A. J. Jacobs
Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.
A. J. Jacobs
After decimating several vegetables, I decide juicing is my favorite form of food preparation. There's something perversely appealing about subjecting an innocent plant to that much violence.
A. J. Jacobs
How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?
A. J. Jacobs
In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.
A. J. Jacobs
I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. I tried the raw food vegan diet. And I tried the calorie restriction diet, which is the idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time. Whether or not you want to, of course, is the idea.
A. J. Jacobs
A 2002 Oxford study showed counting sheep actually delays the onset of sleep. It's just too dull to stop us from worrying about jobs and spouses.
A. J. Jacobs