Quotes About Moderation

To facilitate learning, I have found it helpful to appoint a Five Whys master for each area in which the method is being used. This individual is tasked with being the moderator for each Five Whys meeting, making decisions about which prevention steps to take, and assigning the follow-up work from that meeting. The master must be senior enough to have the authority to ensure that those assignments get done

Before addressing what to eat, the most urgent matter is how to eat.

When you are eating all the time, food curiously loses much of its joy, along with its sense of ceremony and sociability.

What all of us need is to find a way to eat regular meals, to take pleasure in a variety of foods, and to be able to eat them without being consumed by negative emotions.

Hara hachi bu is a Confucian principle, popular in Japan since medieval times, that you should eat until you are only eight-tenths full. This principle has since been given backing by nutrition scientists who note that when we eat there is a time delay between the body receiving the food and the brain registering that we are full. When the urge comes to have a second helping, it's worth waiting twenty minutes, and the feeling may pass.

It's not birthday cake in itself that is the problem. It's the surrounding culture of food, where sweet treats are ever-present, consumed without ceremony.

Healthy eating should not preclude the odd cake. But it's good to be able to wait: if not for a while year, at least for an hour or two.

Indulgence makes a child fat. Restriction makes a child fat and unhappy.

But time lessens all extremes and reduces them to mediums & unconcern.

If you overdo it, there are consequences. What kind of consequences? Strokes, brain hemorrhages, aneurysms... How do you know when you have overdone it? When you have a stroke, brain hemorrhage or an aneurysm.

I don't mind getting drunk, but there always comes a moment in the evening when I find myself watching myself bumping into things and thinking—I'm bored of this, can I have full control of my brain back, please?

If you overdo it there are consequences,' said Nightingale. I didn't like the sound of that at all. 'What kind of consequences?' 'Strokes, brain haemorrhages, aneurysms …' 'How do you know when you've overdone it?' 'When you have a stroke, a brain haemorrhage or an aneurysm,

Not that she means anything by it, he knows. This is simply her lifelong habit of moderation at work, her need to tamp everything down to the routine, the modest, the tepid everyday. He understands the whole concept of boundaries, but there's a point where this mania for normalizing turns toxic.

Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink

Let The Other Side Have Meaningless Victories. This is a parlor trick you can use to great effect with your leftist friends. Leftists prize faux moderation above all else; by granting them a point or two, you can convince them that you aren't a radical right-winger at all.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody

Our necessities never equal our wants

Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy.

Eat to live, and not live to eat.

Eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.