Action leads to Attention. that in the short-term releases…

Evolution acts slowly. Our psychological characteristics today are those that promoted reproductive success in the ancestral environmen.

— Keith Henson

Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.

— Daniel Levitin

“From another corner of neuroscience, we’re learning about a neurotransmitter called dopamine. Though there are more than fifty neurotransmitters (that we know of), scientists…

— Jeffrey Foote

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short-term reward loop acts over hours to years, and the long-term…

— Keith Henson

“For all we know, our ancestors may have had better reproductive success not because they were smart, but because they were emotionally sensitive, dynamically…

— Meredith F. Small

Natural selection may lead to benefits for species, but these 'higher' advantages can only arise as sequelae, or side consequences, of natural selection's causal…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those…

— Randolph M. Nesse

If any value is deeply evolutionarily familiar, it is reproductive success. If any value is truly unnatural, if there is one thing that humans…

— Satoshi Kanazawa

“People are not controlled by some internal calculator that crudely motivates them to maximize their reproductive success. Instead, people form deep, lifelong emotional attachments…

— Randolph M. Nesse

I try to do the right thing. If you do what you know is right, and you're a good person, you might not win…

— Gunnar Peterson

If we human beings learn to see the intricacies that bind one part of a natural system to another and then to us, we…

— Gaylord Nelson

In the U.S. Senate, in the short term we need to reduce the tax burden on hard working individuals, families, and small businesses.

— Joni Ernst

A job is a short term solution to a long term problem

— Robert Kiyosaki

The economic position is only flourishing on the surface. Germany is in fact dancing on a volcano. If the short-term credits are called in,…

— Gustav Stresemann

Nature will eventually do what nature has always done. It will respond in a self-stabilizing manner over the long term with moderate variability over…

— John H. Sununu