I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter. — Steven Wright
If Placebo was a drug, they would no doubt be pure heroin - dangerous, mysterious and totally addictive. — Brian Molko
Whether the object of your faith is real or false, you will get results. Your subconscious mind responds to the thought in your mind. Look upon faith as a thought in your mind and that will suffice. — Joseph Murphy
Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind. — Norman Vincent Peale
Myths which are believed in tend to become true. — George Orwell
The mind, in addition to medicine, has powers to turn the immune system around. — Jonas Salk
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. — Plato
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient. — Eliphas Levi
Your brain has the power to modify your pain perception. — Wim Hof
No one can believe how powerful prayer is and what it can effect, except those who have learned it by experience. Whenever I have prayed earnestly, I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes. — Martin Luther
The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect". — Paulo Coelho
Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori
In an effective classroom students should not only know what they are doing, they should also know why and how. — Harry Wong
Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down. — Joseph Stalin
Let the free people of the world know that we could have bargained over and sold out our cause in return for a personal secure and stable life. We received many offers to this effect but we chose to be at the vanguard of the confrontation as a badge of duty and honour. — Muammar al-Gaddafi
To make a perfume, take some rose water and wash your hands in it, then take a lavender flower and rub it with your palms, and you will achieve the desired effect — Leonardo da Vinci
The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher. — Harry Wong
Placebo Quotes
Placebo is music for outsiders, by outsiders and our gigs are like conventions of outcasts, which is cool. — Brian Molko
Religion is now viewed by many as a placebo or emotional crutch precisely because that is how we often pitch the gospel to unbelievers — J.P. Moreland
For me, as a beginning novelist, all other living writers form a control group for whom the world is a placebo. — Nicholson Baker
I never thought I'd say this, but I miss voter fraud. — Jon Stewart
The placebo effect is one of the most fascinating things in the whole of medicine. It's not just about taking a pill, and your performance and your pain getting better. It's about our beliefs and expectations. It's about the cultural meaning of a treatment. — Ben Goldacre
You are a placebo responder. Your body plays tricks on your mind. You cannot be trusted. — Ben Goldacre
Placebos are like the lollipop of optimism, but we can do much better by dealing directly with the mind... And it works! — Matthieu Ricard
I think if your direction in life is clear and if you develop the wish to accomplish/have a fulfilled life and to contribute something to others, I think that definitely gives you such a strength to want to be alive, that that would be the best placebo. — Matthieu Ricard
Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real? — George Carlin
A man doesn't need a study to know if he's feeling amorous. There is no such thing as a placebo erection. — Chris Kilham
Calming Effect Quotes
And they all likely benefited from the same calming effect. — James Nestor
If you want to be effective in business, you need a clear, calm, cool, and collected mind. — Naval Ravikant
When you preserve a person’s autonomy by clearly giving them permission to say 'No' to your ideas, the emotions calm, the effectiveness of the decisions go up, and the other party can really look at your proposal. — Chris Voss
The only effect that I ever noticed from smoking marijuana was a sort of mild sedative, a release of tension when I was overworking. It never made me boisterous of quarrelsome. If anything, it calmed me and reduced my activity. — Robert Mitchum
When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present. — Eknath Easwaran
Hugging trees has a calming effect on me. I'm talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone. I've hugged trees in every part of this little island. — Gerry Adams
The moderation of people in prosperity is the effect of a smooth and composed temper, owing to the calm of their good fortune. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. — William Cornelius Van Horne
Writing has always been a sanctuary or a refuge for me, any time I'm stressed or anxious or worried I find that a couple of hours expressing myself by writing always seems to have a calming effect on me. — Christopher Paul Curtis
In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations. — Robert Barron
Cause And Effect Quotes
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects. — Henry Melvill
Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. — Mary Browne
The automobile, both a cause and an effect of this decentralization, is ideally suited for our vast landscape and our generally confused and contrary commuting patterns. — Brock Yates
High-intensity exercise causes muscles to produce lactate which gets into the brain where it plays a direct role in the production of norepinephrine & serotonin. Analysis of 15 studies found aerobic exercise and particularly high-intensity exercise effectively treat anxiety. — Rhonda Patrick
Transgender medicine increases psychiatric burden of disease, creates side effects on steroids, inflicts surgical complications and sterility, and raises mortality from all causes. Transgender Medicine equals Bad Medicine. No ethical doctor, nurse, or assistant should do this! — Peter A. McCullough
For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue, and it only does so as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a cause greater than oneself or as the by-product of one's surrender to a person other than oneself. — Viktor E. Frankl
If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. That's why the placebo effect is so powerful for every type of healing. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the "nocebo" effect. — Bruce H. Lipton
It's known that stress gives rise to disease. It's also known that many diseases, especially stress-related diseases, can be cured by placebos - pills that have no medicinal effect, but people think they do, and so they do. — Richard Dawkins
The doctor-patient relationship is critical to the placebo effect. — Irving Kirsch
... surgery is a powerful placebo, perhaps the ultimate placebo. The effectiveness of a placebo is directly proportional to the impression it makes on the patient's subconscious mind. — John E. Sarno
We have known about the placebo effect for many years. This is a remarkable effect - placebo can cure 30 percent in many cases. — Matthieu Ricard
I do a lot of research on the placebo effect, not just in depression but in irritable bowel syndrome, pain, arthritis of the knee, migraine, asthma. — Irving Kirsch
I often felt better as soon as I swallowed my vitamin C, long before it had time to take effect. Medical researchers call it 'placebo effect'; I prefer to call it magic, for it occurs when something - a pill or a word - is imbued with power and meaning, and so it becomes effective. That is alchemy. — Kat Duff
Eventually it became clear that our emotions, attitudes, and thoughts profoundly affect our bodies, sometimes to the degree of life or death. Soon mind-body effects were recognized to have positive as well as negative impacts on the body. This realization came largely from research on the placebo effect—the beneficial results of suggestion, expectation, and positive thinking. — Larry Dossey
In all technai or arts (medicine perhaps most of all), there is a self-exhilaration on the part of the practitioner (the intoxication of the ego with its own potency) which is infectious: the patient enjoys a placebo-effect which redounds to the ego of the "artist." — Kenny Smith
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