I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
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I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It’s like, it’s really bad. It’s like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.
A. J. JACOBSI am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
A. J. JACOBSI’ve never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
A. J. JACOBSI was what they call ‘skinny fat’ – a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
A. J. JACOBSI love to live things, so I wanted to immerse myself and get into the mindset – and sandals – of my forefathers.
A. J. JACOBSPaintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
A. J. JACOBSWhen I was with the serpent-handlers in Tennessee, it was the most bizarre method of worship I could think of. Yet when you sit with these people, you can kind of see how it makes sense.
A. J. JACOBSIf my former self and my current self met for coffee, they’d get along OK, but they’d both probably walk out of the Starbucks shaking their heads and saying to themselves, “That guy is kinda delusional.”
A. J. JACOBSMed students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.
A. J. JACOBSIts sort of my job to feel good.
A. J. JACOBSI know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing – but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.
A. J. JACOBSIt’s hard to be in a bad mood when you’re walking around looking like you’re about to play the semifinals at Wimbledon.
A. J. JACOBSGiulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It’s like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes.
A. J. JACOBSProbably 90 percent of our life decisions are powered by the twin engines of inertia and laziness.
A. J. JACOBSPaintings! They’re like TV, but they don’t move.
A. J. JACOBSHow do you gag the voice in your head that says, ‘You don’t have to [do it] today. There’s always tomorrow.’?
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