Aubrey Marcus Quotes Page 3
Best 131 Quotes by Aubrey Marcus – Page 3 of 5
Own the Day, Own Your Life Quotes
“Build upon your successes rather than complain about your failures.”
“Chronic stress is literally killing us, and the traditional medical model offers us very little help to deal with it. Counterintuitively, one of the best ways to deal with chronic stress is to seek certain forms of acute stress. Through a process called hormesis, acute stress will help you adapt and become stronger.”
“Dinner should be a celebration of a day fully owned.”
“Do it well, or not at all.”
“Don't confuse owning the day with figuring out ways to squeeze out more and more productivity in less and less time. Owning is not about working more. It's about living a full and fulfilled life – one that speaks to what our bodies need most, which, yes, includes meaningful bursts of productivity, but also includes the rich and joyful connection that other people give us. If you don't connect with others, then you can't own the day. Plain and simple.”
“F*ck exercise. Exercise is for puppies and babies. We need to train.”
“Flexibility of thought is one of the greatest attributes any human being can have, scientist or otherwise. It's the ability to take those deeply engraved opinions, and overwrite them with new and better information. Our brains are malleable enough for that task; you just have to bring the goal into awareness.”
“Focus on the micro and the macro takes care of itself.”
“For overall health and optimal mood and physical performance, you need to pair any sugar you consume with something that slows its absorption into the body – and the two things that do that are fat and fiber.”
“Ginger has the ability to speed up the time it takes your stomach to pass food to your digestive tract by up to 50%.”
“Have you ever gotten up from the toilet after a bowel movement and inspected your work? Have you ever been able to tell, by its contents, exactly what you ate a few hours earlier? Maybe some corn kernels. Some threads of spinach. Some almond slivers or carrot chunks. If you can see it, it means you didn't digest it, which usually means you ate too fast.”
“Here are some foods with high dietary nitrate levels that are easily converted into the biological signal of nitric oxide: beets, pumpkin seeds, Swiss chard, arugula, watermelon, red wine, and dark chocolate.”
“If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.”
“If we allow the inner critic to punish us every time we fail to meet the standards of perfection, we'll stop trying altogether. We'll decide that it is better to pretend that it's someone else's fault, hiding behind excuses and rationalizations.
If we know that when we fail, we will forgive ourselves, then we get to play from inspiration rather than fear. We'll be able to look our mistakes in the eye, take the medicine, and move on.”
“If we tell our body something is poison, it becomes more poisonous. If we convince ourselves that it is healthy, it becomes more healthy. This is not to say that the reality of a food or situation doesn't matter. Molecular biology still exists – it's a real thing – but the mind isn't a passive bystander.”
“If you are into alcohol and marijuana, you aren't breaking the law, and you still want to own your day, after your workout is the perfect time to have a drink or smoke a little of the sticky icky... The key is: a little.”
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“If you know that you were built for more than this... Do yourself one favor, go take the chance.”
“If you don’t eat fat, you’re probably fat.”
“If you start a book, and you don't like it, do not continue to read it just because you bought it.”
“In 1822, according to Dr. Stephan Guyenet, people consumed on average the amount of sugar currently found in a single can of Coke or Sprite every five days. Today, we consume that amount every seven hours.”
“Know the plants, know yourself, be honest, and decide the terms of your relationship with them. If it can be healthy, it will enhance more than just your performance, and you'll have an advantage in everything you do for as long as you live.”
“Morning Mineral Cocktail:
- 12 ounces filtered water
- 3 grams sea salt
- 1/4 lemon, squeezed”
“My favorite study is a 2008 British experiment in which they compared a nap, a cup of coffee, and more nighttime sleep, to see what would happen to people's afternoon energy levels and concentration. The nap – yes, the nap! – won.”
“No sugary stuff for breakfast. Period. Instead, we need to add fats back into our diet in sugar's place. Yep, you heard me, fats. Fats fats fats fats. Get used to the word, because you are going to hear it a lot.
Make this simple substitution – fat for sugar – and you will have the sustained, balanced energy to power you all the way up to lunch. And if you can't find a way to make this happen, then skip breakfast entirely.”
“Once you embrace the grind, whatever your grind may be, all of the sudden it isn't so bad. It is never pain that is the problem; it is the suffering caused by the resistance to that pain.”
“Our entire culture is built on the elimination of the difficult and the pursuit of the comfortable.”
“Play. If you believe you are too old to play, you will become too old to play. If you stay young in heart, spirit, and belief, you will stay young in body and mind as well.”
“Psychologists agree that there are four keys to compelling positive action:
1) know what to do and how to do it;
2) believe it will work;
3) see the value; and
4) get support from your community/tribe/family.”
“Remember: sleep isn’t binary. It’s not an off switch. It’s a dimmer.”
“See your future. I want you to imagine yourself a year from now. You know that in a year you are going to be different, whether you do nothing or something. And the choices you make between now and then will determine that difference.”
“Small things, when compounded over time, tend to have big consequences.”
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“I’ve been called a conservative right wing misogynist by the left and I’ve been called a liberal left wing snowflake by the right.
I guess when both sides are offended by your message, you’re doing something right.”
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