Human attention, in the best of circumstances, is a fluid but fragile entity. Beyond a certain threshold, the more that is asked… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
As a writer, politician, scientist, and businessman, [Ben] Franklin had few equals among the educated of his day-though he left school at… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
Advertising is the modern substitute for argument, its function is to make the worse appear the better article. A confused competition of… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I think that [Paul] Bloom's approach - and others who take it - is not so much that there is a precise… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
It is that the individual has within him or herself vast resources for self-understanding, for altering the self-concept basic attitudes, and his… — Carl Rogers Copy Share Image
Proof, being the highest level of reproduction activity, has an important interiorization aspect: as Yuri Manin stresses in his book Provable and… — Alexandre Borovik Copy Share Image
There are people who believe that there should be a standard psychiatric examination for every presidential candidate and for every president. But… — Robert Jay Lifton Copy Share Image
I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories,… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
In the face of death, especially violent death, things don't make sense anymore. So death is the dissolution of either physical form… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of… — Charles Lane Poor Copy Share Image
To me sympathy for a character has little to do with how morally upstanding or wicked they are. All that really matters… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
When you get your self realization or your second birth you become entitled to an awareness by which you can find out… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Literature exists inside the language. It's made of words. It's not made of ideas and it's not made of concepts, of psychological… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Designing is not a profession but an attitude. Design has many connotations. It is the organization of materials and processes in the… — Laszlo Moholy-Nagy Copy Share Image
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they… — Hayden Fry Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Men were considered "free" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you turn on the television, you'll find the mothers of the most obvious criminals that man could ever diagnose, and they… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
If you know the psychological nature of your own mind, depression is spontaneously dispelled; instead of being enemies and strangers, all living… — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The psychological condition of fear is divorced from any concrete and true immediate danger. It comes in many forms: unease, worry, anxiety,… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
All writers are insecure, the male ones especially. It's well known. Why else would they spend so much time on make-believe? They're… — Philip Sington Copy Share Image
The road, more than simply a system of regulations and designs, is a place where many millions of us, with only loose… — Tom Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
The pro-psychedelic plant position is clearly an antidrugs position. Drug dependencies are the result of habitual, unexamined, and obsessive behavior; these are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a… — Sebastian Faulks Copy Share Image
There are many aspects to success; material wealth is only one component. ...But success also includes good health, energy and enthusiasm for… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Defence lawyers use the term "duress" to describe the use of force, coercion or psychological pressure exerted on a client in the… — Emily Thorne Copy Share Image
Apophenia means finding pattern or meaning where others don’t. Feelings of revelation and ecstasies usually accompany it. It has some negative connotations… — Peter J. Carroll Copy Share Image
Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man.… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
There are people who are convinced supernatural forces are at work, but I've no idea. I suspect 'possession' might be a psychological… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
Addiction is the number one disease of civilization, and it's directly and indirectly related to all other diseases. Besides physical addictions to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
The goalkeeper plays in a psychological position, and he's dealing with mental things. I wanted to describe the things I've done wrong… — Oliver Kahn Copy Share Image
The elegant study... is consistent with the themes of modern cognitive neuroscience . Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
Remember the Golden Rule? "Treat people as you would like to be treated." The best managers break the Golden Rule every day.… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
For a film to be viable, it has to survive this process of scrutiny. I think most filmmakers have obsessive-compulsive tendencies and… — James Marsh Copy Share Image
If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in… — Leanne Payne Copy Share Image
The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget… — Morley Safer Copy Share Image
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