Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

It is funny how it is almost more painful to fall over and scrape your knee than to be blown up. Your body goes into incredible protection mode.

I don't get hurt because I'm so slow.

Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

For me, the reason I keep working out and want to get bigger and focus on staying fit is because when you do fall it's easier to tighten up and not get hurt. I also wrestle, and that helps me a lot with taking a fall. A lot of what I do at the end of they day are things that will help me to not get hurt.

The first thing we become convinced of is that man is organized so as to be far more sensible of pain than of pleasure.

Sometimes when things are way too big and I can't control it, I do sort of a weird thing where I kind of check out a little bit. It's all about self-preservation for me.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

If someone made fun of me, I'd be bummed out. But I'd play it like I thought it was hilarious.

If I feel vulnerable, I get angry.

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

From a Darwinian perspective, it is clear what pain is doing. It's a warning: 'Don't do that again.' If you burn yourself, you're never going to pick up a live coal again.

I don't feel pain like most people.

I've broken my hand, I threw my back out once, and then I've had some pretty bad cuts, but that's been about it. I've been able to avoid most of the really, really bad injuries and career-ending injuries.

I want to exit from this sport with my head intact.

As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out.

You don't want to be passive through motion and then try to produce force. That's very scary. That's where you can injure yourself a lot of times.

I do not want to get hit in the face for real. I'll get mad.

When you play trying to avoid injuries, that's when you get hurt.

I don't want to go out there and jeopardize myself getting hurt in camp.

I always took a lot of pride in being a safe wrestle. I never injured anyone.