S. Jay Olshansky quotes

“Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“We have grown accustomed to the wonders of clean water, indoor plumbing, laser surgery, genetic engineering, artificial joints, replacement body parts, and the much longer lives that accompany them. Yet we should remember that the vast majority of humans ever born died before the age of 10 from an infectious disease.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

#Engineering Quotes #Water Quotes #Age Quotes

“Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesnt have to occur. Theyll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“We know in the field of aging that some people tend to senesce, or grow older, more rapidly than others, and some more slowly.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“Exercise is roughly the only equivalent of a fountain of youth that exists today, and its free to everyone.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.”
-- S. Jay Olshansky

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“Pamela Anderson has more prosthetic in her body than I do. Nobody calls her disabled.”

Source : "My 12 pairs of legs". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2009.

“There are people who are born and die and never once are aware of their breath going in and out of their body. That's how far away they live from themselves”

Source : Gwethalyn Graham (1944). “Earth and High Heaven”, Philadelphia and New York : J.B. Lippincott

“It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.”

“You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.”

“There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.”

Source : Quoted in N.Y. Times, 16 Nov. 1967

“It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from past experience will hold good also in the future.”

“I could spend a whole day at a spa. Id get a facial, a scalp rub, massages, then eat some grapes and be good to go.”

“The way to health is to have an aromatic bath and a scented massage every day.”

“I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.”

“What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.”