Iris Apfel

Just because you get to a certain number doesn't mean you have to roll up into a ball and wait for the grim reaper. We were put on this earth to do something! If you stop using your brain, at any age, it is going to stop working. It's like if you stop using your hand, it will atrophy. I think doing nothing is a curse.

American Businesswoman

Scott Kelly

During my time in orbit, I lost bone mass, my muscles atrophied, and my blood redistributed itself in my body, which strained my heart. Every day, I was exposed to ten times the radiation of a person on Earth, which will increase my risk of a fatal cancer for the rest of my life.

American Astronaut

Irving R. Kaufman

To the extent that the judicial profession becomes the daily routine of deciding cases on the most secure precedents and the narrowest grounds available, the judicial mind atrophies and its perspective shrinks.

American Judge

Jeffrey Tate

Concert-going has become much less the thing to do, while people are still going to opera. This might be a harsh judgment, but it could easily happen that orchestras could slowly atrophy.

English Musician

Dag Hammarskjold

Life yields only to the conqueror. Never accept what can be gained by giving in. You will be living off stolen goods, and your muscles will atrophy.

Swedish Diplomat

Frank Lloyd Wright

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

American Architect

Ezra Pound

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

American Poet

Neil Gaiman

The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.

British Author

Karen Duffy

American Actress

David E. Kelley

American Producer

Used metaphorically to describe neglect in various contexts, not only physical.

Non-medical Usage

Conveys a sense of loss or deterioration; may evoke sympathy or concern.

Emotional Impact

'Atrophy' implies a slow decline, not something that happens suddenly.

Gradual Process

Often refers to diseases or conditions specifically affecting muscles or tissues.

Specific Conditions

Commonly used by healthcare professionals, implying knowledge of medical terms.

Medical Context

In medical context, atrophy often occurs without a person’s choice or control.

Non-voluntary

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 understand the systems of the brain that predict these bad things that help to that are different in people who commit these bad crimes it gives us an opportunity to try to develop a treatment for that a way of addressing it if I injured my arm in my this muscle gets atrophied just like these certain

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 In fact, if you don't continuously expose your muscles to some resistance, they will shrink, a process known as muscular atrophy. In contrast, exposing the muscle to a high-degree of tension, especially while the muscle is lengthening,

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 of upward mobility, opportunity and improved living standards. Without growth, countries contract and atrophy, not just in the annals of economic statistics but also in the meaning of life and how lives are lived.

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 Is all of our brain going to start to shrink and atrophy like that? Are we as a culture going to start to value knowledge less? As somebody who has always believed in the importance of the stuff that we know,

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 did a great deal to improve humanity, it eradicated the very skill that my grandfather loved, and it atrophied craftsmanship as we know it. But all of that is about to change with 3D printing,

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 spinal muscular atrophy, where the muscles are getting weak but the brain remains strong. I love football. I'm a passionate football fan, and my passion has brought me so much joy