Blaxter Health Quotes & Sayings

People can be great competitors on Sunday and mates on Monday. — Casey Stoner

When a thing is told to you and you can't remember it happening it doesn't count somehow. It is as though it had nothing to do with you. Remembering, that's what counts. — Brian Moore

So intimately is it bound up with the entire spiritual life that only — Andrew Murray

The evidence here, as elsewhere, suggests that education is certainly relevant, but more because better education is associated with general differences in patterns of life than because discrete parts of a lifestyle can be changed. Health-change policies which focus entirely on the individual may be ineffective not only because exposure to health risks is largely involuntary, but also, as this study has shown, because of unwarranted assumptions about the extent to which behaviour can, in these circumstances, be effective in improving health. — Mildred Blaxter

Health can be defined negatively, as the absence of illness, functionally, as the ability to cope with everyday activities, or positively, as fitness and well-being. It has also been noted that in the modern world, health still has a moral dimension. — Mildred Blaxter

Health is not, in the minds of most people, a unitary concept. It is multi-dimensional, and it is quite possible to have 'good' health in one respect, but 'bad' in another. — Mildred Blaxter

Her eyes narrowed as she realised just what Ian was. "You're a filthy Debasement!"
"Maybe. But damned if I'm the one eating kiddie-snacks in the middle ofnowhere while admiring modern art. — Stephen Hunt

I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly'. — Vincent Van Gogh

If you want to change people by talking about God, then there is only one way: instead of teaching God, you must live God. Because: "teaching" God is unthinkable in any other way than the way you would teach love or poetry. You teach love only through love, poetry only through writing poetry, faith in God only through a contagious way of trusting. — Eugen Drewermann

Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education. — Mildred Blaxter

I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185. — Paul Lynde

A major difficulty is that the answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx is partly a product of the answers that we already have given to the riddle in its various forms. — Gregory Bateson