Geoff Mulgan

So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

English Educator

Jason Statham

I go to this gym full of stunt men. There aren't any TVs or treadmills there. This is a spit-and-sawdust kind of place. It has a lot of great training aids - trampolines and bags and every weapon ever invented to do harm to a human being. If you want to know how to throw a knife, it's great.

British Actor

Kate Klise

As writers, we must keep throwing problems at our characters. Conflict is the heart of good storytelling. Hiking in nature along a twisting trail can remind us what a good story feels like. It's the opposite of a treadmill - or an interstate highway.

American Author

Tom Riley

I love to run. When the weather's bad, I should get on the treadmill in the basement gym of my apartment building, but I lack the motivation.

English Actor

Paula Deen

I'm making little changes in my life to take care of myself, like putting in a mile or two on my treadmill every day.

American Chef

Janette Turner Hospital

We inherit plots. There are only two or three in the world, five or six at most. We ride them like treadmills.

Australian Novelist

Sherlyn Chopra

I like to set challenging targets every time I swim or run on the treadmill or indulge in weight training.

Grizz Chapman

Hit the gym... Working out is the key to your life. All you need is a half an hour on the treadmill.

American Actor

Randy Savage

Being a wrestler is like walking on the treadmill of life. You get off it and it just keeps going.

American Wrestler

Toni Garrn

I love to sweat, I love to dance on the treadmill, and I need that in my life.

German Model

The word 'treadmill' often relates to exercise, health, and gym culture.

Physical Fitness

'Treadmill' implies movement without changing location, useful for indoor workouts.

Stay Stationary

A 'treadmill' represents technology that enables exercise at home or in a gym.

Modern Convenience

When used figuratively, 'treadmill' can carry a sense of frustration or exhaustion.

Emotional Connotations

It implies effort without achievement or progression, often resulting in demotivation.

Unproductive Effort

The 'treadmill' can refer to the repetitive nature of daily life or work.

Daily Grind

 When it's warmer outside, people wear less clothing, but if I strip down to my birthday suit, it doesn't make it sunny. It's like having someone run on a treadmill and saying "Look at how much more his arms move when he runs faster! The arms must be where running happens." That's why working with people with brain lesions is so important to neuroscience.

Diagnosing a zombie:...

 Well it's more that you've played on a treadmill. As you've been walking through that world, we've been cleverly causing the parts of it that you're not in to vanish, and the parts of it in front of you to appear. A good trick, but not the basis for the revolution that I promised you in the beginning of this talk.

The transformative power...

 down the treadmill does when they do do intentional physical activity it's things they enjoy they tend to walk the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline and they all tend to have a garden they know how to set up their life in the right way so they have the right outlook each of these cultures

How to live to be 100+ -...

 That burns calories just as much as going on the treadmill does. When they do do intentional physical activity, it's the things they enjoy. They tend to walk, the only proven way to stave off cognitive decline, and they all tend to have a garden. They know how to set up their life in the right way

Dan Buettner: How to...

 to get more, spend more, and to maintain the same level of happiness, it's kind of a hedonic treadmill. You never get off, and you never really feel satisfied. Becoming an effective altruist gives you that meaning and fulfillment. It enables you to have a solid basis for self-esteem

Peter Singer: The why...

 would not in fact have any real political political impact largely because any medium that's used to distribute videos of coure use on treadmills couldn't possibly also be serious but that's the same logic is suggesting that the Declaration of Independence can't be important because

How can social media...

 kittens on a treadmill but you know that's the internet for you but nine of the ten in those first hours and within half a day donation sites were up and donations were pouring in from all around the world it was just an incredible coordinated global response

How social media can...

 One person said this. And it's a creative idea, because it's appropriate and it's novel. You either did this test and came up with ideas while you were seated or while you were walking on a treadmill. They did the test twice, with different objects.

Want to be more...

 until we started to observe something extraordinary. This is an animal that received an implant. Now she's not walking perfectly, but she's moving those back legs and she's even starting to lift herself up. And on a treadmill,

Could we treat spinal...

 this is the first time I ever put her on the treadmill so we're gonna wait a little bit more in order for her to relax treadmill helps the brain to keep moving forward you know and it