Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
I spend several years trying to get inside the brain and heart of my subjects, listening to the interior monologues in their… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
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That's the way to go. People say: 'Oh, he doesn't want to come back, he's scared,' and it's to play with your… — Georges St-Pierre Copy Share Image
I grew up bilingual, I grew up speaking Chinese in the home, Mandarin Chinese with my parents, and I learned English because… — Leroy Chiao Copy Share Image
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With God's help, I've not had a drink in nine and a half years. That's my whole story right there. And because… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
Most people don't know what it's like to be poor, and to live in poverty. To live in a situation where everything… — Alan Sparhawk Copy Share Image
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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I get on the airplane and there's a screen in front of everything. You get into a taxicab in New York, there's… — Linda Ronstadt Copy Share Image
The scientists who are working 80 hours a week trying to do their science are up against PR guys who know how… — Robert Kenner Copy Share Image
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After I began to make some money, my brain-damaged accountant put me in one business after another that went bad. The only… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
I know if I don't look after myself, I will be talking to you in a couple of years' time mumbling my… — Anthony Joshua Copy Share Image
Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“From a distance the head is a bowling ball on the shoulders, but not so: a carapace and inside, the contents are… — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Everybody has an image of [princess Margaret], to a certain extent. But I felt it would have been harder if we were… — Vanessa Kirby Copy Share Image
I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience. I was an English… — William Mapother Copy Share Image
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Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get… — Fred Durst Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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In this prison camp, the Gestapo state brain-police planet Earth, what is normal is insane and what is insane is normal. But… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Modeling can be a bit brain damaging. Starting my own brand was what I needed to do. I only model if there… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
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Dr. Leonard Shlain, chairman of laparoscopic surgery at California Pacific Medical Center, said they took some four and five year-olds and gave… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
I feel Icelandic people are really good at gathering together information and brain power. We're better at that than some kind of… — Bjork Copy Share Image
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