Jimmy Fallon Quotes

It's difficult to know when to set boundaries around your health at work because the decline is so gradual. Allowing stress to build up, losing sleep, and sitting all day without exercising all add up.

Disregard for workers' health protection is not what American industry is supposed to be about.

OSHA was created to regulate jobs that cause injury or illness to workers. Increasingly, though, OSHA sees its purpose as improving the general welfare of working Americans, whether work itself is hazardous or not.

I've urged employers to address ergonomics and adopt ergonomics measures.

Good health and safety really matters - we need to protect people against death and serious injury in the workplace.

It's unfair to think that we can do what we do with the intensity that we do it and expect injuries to not happen.

I've begun to think that we sit far more than we're supposed to...Why else would we have feet?

I stand for 8-10 hours a day. Why is standing limited to four hours?

Every hour you spend on your rear end ... saps your energy and ruins your health.

You know, the dirty secret in the Director's Guild is that the average life expectancy of Director's Guild members is 57 years old. The stress level is so high and directors are generally really out of shape, cause they sit in the chair and they eat craft service.

I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.

Our children are obese, either have or being threatened by diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and not socially adjusting properly to others because of a lack of fitness.

I was very good at sitting. But I just read so much research about how horrible sitting is for you. It's like, it's really bad. It's like Paula-Deen-glazed-bacon-doughnut bad. So I now move around as much as possible.

The bottom line to this is, there are few doctors who have any expertise in chemical exposure.

It was also my experience at Hull-House that aroused my interest in industrial diseases.

I don't like six-packs. If you get six-packs in a short time, it will cause health problems.

I work in an industry in which we're all quite vulnerable, I think, to mental health.

I worked in the pit for more than 20 years and never had a serious injury.

Normal pain is no problem, that just comes with the job.

Sometimes I log more than my fair share of hours on my tush - behind my desk, in the car, in front of the TV. And all that sitting can turn even the tightest buns into rice pudding.

I've urged employers to address workers' pain.

I've taken pains to acknowledge that ergonomic pain is real and that ergonomics is valid.

Illness, mechanicals, and injuries is not something you can 100% avoid; you can only try to limit the risk.

Yes, I'm doing damage to my body now. The human body isn't designed to be this size.

A new study published by The British Medical Journal found that inactivity can kill you. I mean, these are the kind of findings that just scare the hell out of Congress.