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“In fact, our brains are most active, and hungriest, in the first few years of life. Even as adults, our brains use a lot of energy: when you just sit still, about 20 percent of your calories go to your brain. One-year-olds use much more than that, and by four, fully 66 percent of calories go to the brain, more than at any other period of development. In fact, the physical growth of children slows down in early childhood to compensate for the explosive activity of their brains.”
― The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
― The Gardener and the Carpenter: What the New Science of Child Development Tells Us About the Relationship Between Parents and Children
“Integrate at least three of these items into your daily diet to be sure you are eating plenty of whole food. 1. Beans—all kinds: black beans, pinto beans, garbanzo beans, black-eyed peas, lentils 2. Greens—spinach, kale, chards, beet tops, fennel tops 3. Sweet potatoes—don’t confuse with yams. 4. Nuts—all kinds: almonds, peanuts, walnuts, sunflower seeds, Brazil nuts, cashews 5. Olive oil—green, extra-virgin is usually the best. Note that olive oil decomposes quickly, so buy no more than a month’s supply at a time. 6. Oats—slow-cook or Irish steel-cut are best. 7. Barley—either in soups, as a hot cereal, or”
― The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
― The Blue Zones Solution: Eating and Living Like the World's Healthiest People
“Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.”
― Atlas Shrugged
― Atlas Shrugged
“Each man’s place in the company hierarchy, perhaps painfully won over many years, became meaningless if his new super boss, the conglomerator, didn’t see things his way. Robert Metz told in The New York Times about an executive of an acquired company who observed that he and his colleagues had been given what he called the “mushroom treatment”: “Right after the acquisition, we were kept in the dark. Then they covered us with manure. Later they cultivated us. After that, they let us stew for a while. And, finally, they canned us.”
― The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
― The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s
“Michael Ward knows. Ward loves railroads. His loves his own railroad company, CSX, which traces its origins to 1827 when the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad was formed as the nation’s first common carrier. He traces his own origins at CSX back thirty-seven years, when he took an analyst job as a newly minted Harvard Business School M.B.A., rising to become chairman, president, and CEO in 2003. And he loves the whole American freight rail industry. “Railroaders are like farmers,” Ward declares. “You heard about the farmer that won the lottery? They said to him, ‘Oh my gosh, you won the lottery; what are you going to do with all that money?’ He said, ‘I’m a farmer and I love farming, and I’m going to farm until every penny of it is gone.’ And I say railroaders are like that. When we make more money, we’re going to invest more back into the infrastructure, so we can strengthen the railroad and grow the business.” Ward may sound like a press release, but that’s exactly how he talks, and why he’s a major industry spokesman. He lavishes praise on industry performance: “While we’ve improved the profitability of the industry, we’ve also cut rates in half of what they were in 1980 for our customers, on an inflation-adjusted basis. We’re providing a more economical product to them, and it’s safer and more reliable. Over the years, as an industry, our train accident rate is down 80 percent; our personal injury rate is down 85 percent; and we’re doing this with about one-third of the workforce we had in 1980.” He calls the industry “the envy of the world.”
― Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
― Move: How to Rebuild and Reinvent America's Infrastructure
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