“I have an addictive personality. Sport is my drug of choice these days. It's one of the best drugs there is. It keeps you fit and healthy, even if, in the case of ironman, it pushes your body to the limit. The word "addiction" comes with negative connotations, but it doesn't have to be a damaging impulse. It's all about channeling your craving into something positive.” IfsBodyMotivationalChoicesSportsCasesPersonalityFitHealthyDrugLimitsNegativeAddictionYour BodyImpulseThese DaysCravingChannelingConnotationIronman Book:A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey Source: A Life Without Limits: A World Champion's Journey
“Most drugs work on only about a third of the population, they do no damage to another third, and the final third can have negative consequences.” PainDrugConsequenceNegativeThirdsFinalsPopulationTherapyDamageInjuryNegative Consequences Author:Craig Venter
“There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.” IfsBelieveSaidProblemHappensWantedSchoolAnswersHonestDrugFindingsNegativeDon't BelieveSolveBeing HonestWhat IfSessionBrainstorming Author:George Pelecanos
“I have never taken performance-enhancing drugs in my life and I never will. Over the course of my career I have taken hundreds of drugs tests and every single one has been negative.” LifeHas BeensCoursesCareersTakenDrugNegativeTestsPerformancesPerformance Enhancing Drugs Author:Mohamed Farah
“I think a lot of people who were addicts are actually people who had that strong innate need to experience non-ordinary states of consciousness. But because our society has turned into this destructive culture of these horrible drugs that nullify you, they have that experience in a negative way. And then they lose that capacity forever, to have it in a positive way.” PeopleThinkingWayNeedsStatesCultureStrongLosesConsciousnessForeverDrugOrdinaryCapacityNegativeHorribleDestructiveOur SocietyAddictInnateStates Of Consciousness Author:Daniel Pinchbeck
“Addiction is when you fall in love with a drug instead of a child or a lover and the learning that takes part in that part of the brain is designed by evolution to get us to persist despite negative consequences to do what we need to do - because I don't know anybody who could survive a relationship or parenting if not for the ability to persist despite negative consequences. The problem is when that gets misdirected to a drug and then you can find yourself in some very negative and potentially deadly situations.” IfsKnowsNeedsChildrenProblemFallAbilityBrainSituationEvolutionLoversDrugConsequenceNegativeFalling In LoveAddictionDespiteFinding YourselfPersistNegative Consequences Author:Maia Szalavitz
“Looking back, I've learned that everyone is searching for three things: Identity, community, and a sense of individual purpose. These are fundamental, and if a person feels marginalized or disenfranchised, they're likely to turn to something negative, maybe drugs, maybe promiscuity, or maybe a white supremacist group.” PurposeIndividualCommunityIdentityDrugNegativeLooking BackPromiscuity Author:Christian Picciolini
“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.” PeopleIfsWorldDecisionEffectsPositionSeriousDrugNegativeAround The World Author:Thabo Mbeki
“Sometimes maybe you need an experience. The experience can be a person or it can be a drug. The experience opens a door that was there all the time but you never saw it. Or maybe it blasts you into outer space...All that negative stuff. All the pain...It just floted away from me, I just floated away from it...up and away.” NeedsPersonsSometimesPainStuffSpaceSawsDoorsDrugNegativeBlastOuter Space Author:Melvin Burgess