“In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements.” WayBodySportsBrainRocksMovementWallHigherLowsYour BodyClimbingRock ClimbingPersuading Author:Jo Nesbo
“Rush Limbaugh is good for the party. Drive it all the way down, take it down as low as it can go, make complete fools of themselves, because it's always darkest before the dawn, and then maybe a moderate can come in and rescue them.” WayPartyFoolLowsDawnRescueModerates Author:Evan Thomas
“The effort to eliminate synthetic pesticides because of unsubstantiated fears about residues in food will make fruits and vegetables more expensive, decrease consumption, and thus increase cancer rates. The levels of synthetic pesticide residues are trivial in comparison to natural chemicals, and thus their potential for cancer causation is extremely low. [Ames believes that "to eat your veggies" is the best way to prevent cancer.]” WayBelieveScienceNaturalLevelsEffortLowsIncreaseFruitRateCancerBest WayExpensiveComparisonChemicalsVegetablesConsumptionDecreaseSyntheticFruits And VegetablesCausationPesticides Author:Bruce Ames
“There is no better way to quickly buoy hard-pressed homeowners than helping them take advantage of the currently record low fixed mortgage rates and significantly reduce their monthly mortgage payments.” WayHardHelpingRecordsLowsAdvantageRateFixedPaymentBetter WaysMortgageHomeownersBuoysMortgage Rate Author:Mark Zandi
“We have to deal with this new type of threat in a way we haven’t yet defined. . . . With a low-probability, high-impact event like this . . . If there’s a one percent chance that Pakistani scientists are helping al Qaeda build or develop a nuclear weapon, we have to treat it as a certainty in terms of our response.” IfsWayHelpingTermChanceDealsEventsHavensTypeWeaponsLowsPercentScientistTreatsImpactThreatResponseNuclearDefinedCertaintyAlsNuclear WeaponsProbabilityAl Qaeda Author:Dick Cheney
“Generally speaking, they have as many stars as other firms, but they are low-key about it, because that's not the Goldman way, but their bench is a lot deeper. I think Goldman has as many A players, but more importantly they have fewer C players. And no firm, I have noticed, has the depth anywhere like that.” ThinkingWayStarsPlayerKeysLowsDepthDeeperFirmFewerBenchesLow Key Author:William D. Cohan
“Video artists being at the low end of the totem pole economically, one of the ways we survive is to go around showing work and giving these talks.” WayGivingEndsArtistLowsVideoTotems Author:Bill Viola