You've got to be a thermostat rather than a thermometer. A thermostat shapes the climate of opinion; a thermometer just reflects it. — Cornel West
The maintenance man is moving the thermostat in our office today. I started talking with him about the — Scott Adams
Too hot to handle, too cold to hold! — Randy Savage
Exposing your body to less-than-comfortable temperatures is another very effective way to turn on your longevity genes. — David Sinclair
In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well. — Len Deighton
Because as it turns out, exposing your body to less-than-comfortable temperatures is another very effective way to turn on your longevity genes. — David Sinclair
Human beings respond positively to physical and thermal stress. — Gary Brecka
My wrist deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up wrist?' My stove deserve a shout out, 'I'm like what up stove?' — 2 Chainz
You have the ability to control your own physiology. — Wim Hof
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart. — Ajahn Brahm
Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of my metabolism. — Wim Hof
I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool. — Dean Ambrose
Think that you have a fever before you actually have a fever. — Thai Proverbs
Cold is a stressor, so if you are able to get into the cold and control your body’s response to it, you will be able to control stress. — Wim Hof
Short Thermostat Quotes
I feel like I can control my own body as if I have a thermostat that I can adjust when I need to. — Wim Hof
Personally, I have already turned down the Downing St thermostat by 1 degree — Tony Blair
No one has ever announced that because determinism is true thermostats do
not control temperature. — Robert Nozick
Man is now in charge of the thermostat for the globe. — Tom Udall
Thermostat Image Quotes
Thermometer Quotes
The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women. — Swami Vivekananda
I know of no better thermometer to your spiritual temperature than this, the measure of the intensity of your prayer. — Charles Spurgeon
The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. — Salvador Dali
I guess my thermometer for my baseball fever is still a goose bump. — Vin Scully
The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention. — John Quincy Adams
Are you a thermometer or a thermostat? A thermometer only reflects the temperature of its environment, adjusting to the situation. But a thermostat initiates action to change the temperature in its environment — Nido R Qubein
The thermometer of a church is its prayer meeting. — Vance Havner
A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. — Tina Fey
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Not wasting any water bottles is good. Not leaving the lights on is good. Turning the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer, is good. But the best thing any of us in the developed world, especially in the United States, can be doing is talking about it. — Bill Nye
The answer is simple. If we lose the world's forests, we lose the fight against climate change. Rainforests are our Earth's greatest utility - our planet's lungs, thermostat and air-conditioning system. — Michael Somare
his planet came with a set of instructions, but we seem to have misplaced them. Important rules like don’t poison the water, soil, or air, don’t let the earth get overcrowded, and don’t touch the thermostat have been broken. — Paul Hawken
Each of us has an inner thermostat setting that determines how much love, success, and creativity we allow ourselves to enjoy. When we exceed out inner thermostat setting, we will often do something to sabotage ourselves, causing us to drop back into the old, familiar zone where we feel secure. — Gay Hendricks
We are so much the victims of abstraction that with the Earth in flames we can barely rouse ourselves to wander across the room and look at the thermostat. — Terence McKenna
The leader’s Attitude is like a thermostat for the place she works. If her attitude is good, the atmosphere is pleasant, and the environment is easy to work in. But if her attitude is bad, the temperature is insufferable. — John C. Maxwell
Apple is developing a service called Home Kit that will allow people to operate gadgets like garage openers and thermostats through one app. In related news, please don't tell my parents about this. I can't be explaining this stuff every week. — Jimmy Fallon
It's hot rain and humid days and broken thermostats. It's screaming and raging steam engines and wanting to take your clothes off just to feel a breeze. It's the kind of kiss that makes you realize oxygen is overrated. — Tahereh Mafi
The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I find the Doomsday picture Al Gore is painting - a six-meter sea level rise, fifteen times the IPCC number - entirely without merit...I protest vigorously the idea that the climate reacts like a home heating system to a changed setting of the thermostat: just turn the dial, and the desired temperature will soon be reached. — Hendrik Tennekes
You can be like a thermometer, just reflecting the world around you. Or you can be a thermostat, one of those people who sets the temperature. — Cory Booker
Caves are beautiful things you know. They're thermostatically controlled - warm when it's cold out and cool when it's warm. Very quiet. Nobody there. Especially in the winter - it was perfect. Also, because it's a cave, you can't do much with it. — Tenzin Palmo
[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together. — Kenneth E. Boulding
Frankly, I've come to feel that there are two kinds of people: those who act like thermometers and those who act like thermostats. — Arlene Francis
And I'm asking you for your good and for your nation's security to take no unnecessary trips, to use carpools or public transportation whenever you can, to park your car one extra day per week, to obey the speed limit, and to set your thermostats to save fuel. Every act of energy conservation like this is more than just common sense-I tell you it is an act of patriotism. — Jimmy Carter
Major power and telephone grids have long been controlled by computer networks, but now similar systems are embedded in such mundane objects as electric meters, alarm clocks, home refrigerators and thermostats, video cameras, bathroom scales, and Christmas-tree lights - all of which are, or soon will be, accessible remotely. — Charles C. Mann
If you continually diet, you are putting your body in a quasi-famine situation. It slows your metabolism down and breaks the thermostat. Diets don't work. They don't help you understand why you're eating more than your body wanted in the first place. — Susie Orbach
He is a thermostat leader, not a thermometer...He does not react to the environment he's in. He changes every environment he's in. — Trent Dilfer
Turning the thermostat down is something that I do pretty reluctantly. I like to be able to walk around in whatever I fancy at home. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
The first indication of menopause is a broken thermostat. It's either that or your weight. In any case, if you don't do something, you could be dead by August. God, middle age is an unending insult. — Dorothea Benton Frank
There's a lot of differing data [about global warming], but as far as I can gather, over the last hundred years the temperature on this planet has gone up 1.8 degrees. Am I the only one who finds that amazingly stable? I could go back to my hotel room tonight and futz with the thermostat for three to four hours. I could not detect that difference. — Dennis Miller
...if we all turned down the thermostat in our house by just one degree, we would save over £650 million worth of energy and nearly nine million tonnes of carbon emissions every year. That would be the equivalent of taking three million cars off our roads...we can bring about a Green Consumer Revolution in this country to improve our lives, enrich our economy and protect our environment. — David Cameron
But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat. — Nick Hornby
I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics. — Daniel Dennett
There is a sense in which the United States Ambassador speaks to the United States, as well as for the United States. I have always seen my role as a thermostat, rather than a thermometer. So I'm going to be actively working... for my own concerns. I have always had people advise me on what to say, but never on what not to say. — Andrew Young
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