Empathy probably started out as a mechanism to improve maternal care. Mammalian mothers who were attentive to their young's needs were more… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost. — Phil McGraw Copy Share Image
Surrealism is based on the belief in the superior reality of certain forms of previously neglected associations, in the omnipotence of dreams,… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Here, there is simply no substitute for the kind of work that experimental psychologists do, work which shows some mechanisms to be… — Hilary Kornblith Copy Share Image
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being… — Gavin de Beer Copy Share Image
Only when Stephen Strange has his accident and everything that he's ever had in his life falls apart that he becomes pretty… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I've always been a student of different ways of looking at the world, different religions. That's been part of my survival mechanism,… — Assata Shakur Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the mechanism for doing philanthropy in a structured way isn't yet in place in India. I already do a fair bit… — Yusuf Hamied Copy Share Image
As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
All handling by IPCC of the Sea Level questions have been done in a way that cannot be accepted and that certainly… — Nils-Axel Morner Copy Share Image
I would make people who bullied me laugh, so that's my defense mechanism. — Sherri Shepherd Copy Share Image
I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your… — David Gilmour Copy Share Image
You and your brain are two things. The brain is your machinery just like everything else is your machinery. This hand is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Answers are what we are trying to get at; search is a process by which you may be able to get answers,… — Conrad Wolfram Copy Share Image
The fact that natural selection and evolution crafted essentially carbon and water into a mechanism that can think and be conscious means… — Neill Blomkamp Copy Share Image
Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive. — Garry Shandling Copy Share Image
There is a vulnerability that any woman has in a situation where you're surrounded by men in an enclosed space. You learn… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
The question whether atoms exist or not... belongs rather to metaphysics. In chemistry we have only to decide whether the assumption of… — August Kekule Copy Share Image
We have now reached a level where we should be even more ambitious. We should focus on more tangible mechanisms and outcomes.… — Narendra Modi Copy Share Image
We often engage the defense mechanism of tunnel vision, just to keep ourselves focused on our daily lives. This makes us terribly… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
This arrogance thing... I've had that my whole life. I flip between, 'Oh really? Oh, thank you. Wow. That's amazing' and, 'Yeah!… — James Corden Copy Share Image
A lot of people fear death because they think that so overwhelming an experience has to be painful, but I've seen quite… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
