Kathy Freston Quotes

“What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.”

“What you want is to rev up your metabolism so that you are burning fat and calories, not preserving fat and calories.”

“I always imagined myself somehow as an electron around some atom, and you're just, like, bouncing around and spinning. There was a never-ending supply of places to go, people to see, things to do, and fitting it all in became kind of an art.”

“Travel is the best and probably cheapest graduate school you can buy.”

“Travel early and travel often. Live abroad, if you can. Understand cultures other than your own. As your understanding of other cultures increases, your understanding of yourself and your own culture will increase exponentially.”

“Though I'm vegan and advocate that others eat a plant-based diet, I know that many people aren't quite ready to take that step in whole.”

“People often say that a bad event is a 'blessing in disguise.' Trust me, experience will teach you that some are unbelievably well disguised. Everyone gets fired, or decides to make a radical change at some point. Everyone suffers setbacks.”

“We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food that's good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter!”

“Only true love can fuel the hard work that awaits you.”

“Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified.”

“A gunshot is the loudest sound in the universe. Especially if the bullet is coming at you.”