Best quotes by Robert Sapolsky on Life

Checkout quotes by Robert Sapolsky on Life

  • Literal cleanliness and orderliness can release us from abstract cognitive and affective distress - just consider how, during moments where life seems to be spiraling out of control, it can be calming to organize your clothes, clean the living room, get the car washed.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • The first roller coaster I ever went on in my life wasn't until college.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • The first roller coaster I ever went on in my life wasn't until college.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • I think you get to a time in life where by definition stuff's turning to quicksand and wherever you can get some solid footing of the familiar suddenly becomes real comforting.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • Successful stress management heavily revolves around combating the building blocks of psychological stress - a feeling as if you have no control over the adversities in your life, a feeling that you have no predictive information about the stressors, if you lack outlets for the frustrations caused by the stressors, if you have no social support.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • If you're a gazelle, you don't have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It's not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression.
    - Robert Sapolsky
  • My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.
    - Robert Sapolsky