Andrew Weil Quotes

You've got to experiment to figure out what works.
Andrew Weil

Works, Figure, Experiment

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.
Andrew Weil

Food, Fast, Toward

Pay attention to your body. The point is everybody is different. You have to figure out what works for you.
Andrew Weil

Different, Attention, Body

The best way to detoxify is to stop putting toxic things into the body and depend upon it's own mechanisms.
Andrew Weil

Best, Body, Stop

A beautiful bouquet or a long-lasting flowering plant is a traditional gift for women, but I have recommended that both men and women keep fresh flowers in the home for their beauty, fragrance, and the lift they give our spirits.
Andrew Weil

Beauty, Women, Men

American businesses are struggling to pay outrageous, exploitive insurance bills for their employees, hampering our ability to compete globally.
Andrew Weil

American, Pay, Ability

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.
Andrew Weil

Time, Nothing, Find

As an American, you have a right to good health care that is effective, accessible, and affordable, that serves you from infancy through old age, that allows you to go to practitioners and facilities of your choosing, and that offers a broad range of therapeutic options.
Andrew Weil

Age, Good, Health

As an undergraduate at Harvard in the 1960s, I was fascinated by my visits to psychologist B.F. Skinner's laboratory.
Andrew Weil

Harvard, Laboratory, Fascinated

As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.
Andrew Weil

Good, Bad, Healing

By keeping my hand in that, it's the way I keep learning. The main way you learn in medicine is by practicing and working with patients.
Andrew Weil

Learning, Working, Keep

Citizens must pressure the American Hospital Association, the American Public Health Association, the Centers for Disease Control and other relevant governmental agencies to make greening our hospitals and medical centers a top priority so that they themselves don't create even more illness.
Andrew Weil

Health, Medical, Control

Clearly, America's dysfunctional food culture must bear some of the blame for our excess pounds, but it's likely our walking-averse lifestyles contribute as well.
Andrew Weil

Food, Blame, America

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.
Andrew Weil

Mind, Control, State

Dietary fat, whether saturated or not, is not a cause of obesity, heart disease or any other chronic disease of civilization.
Andrew Weil

Heart, Whether, Fat

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters.
Andrew Weil

Impossible, Individual, Community

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.
Andrew Weil

Travel, Long, Human

Even low-calorie diets and vigorous exercise fail to work in the long term for at least some people.
Andrew Weil

Work, Long, Fail

Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.
Andrew Weil

Food, Children, May

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
Andrew Weil

Through, After, Working

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.
Andrew Weil

Fear, Human, Greed

Fitting a walk into a busy life can be challenging, so I suggest walking rather driving to work or to run errands as often as you can - in other words, think of walking as alternative transportation.
Andrew Weil

Life, Work, Busy

For many in the modern world, carving out time for both traditional seated meditation and exercise has become close to impossible.
Andrew Weil

Time, Impossible, Become

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.
Andrew Weil

Life, Attitude, Gardening

Genuine happiness comes from within, and often it comes in spontaneous feelings of joy.
Andrew Weil

Happiness, Feelings, Joy

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Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: June 8, 1942

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