There is a brain mechanism that works to identify colour differences directly, without first identifying the absolute colour of each surface. So… — David Papineau Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Moral justification is a powerful disengagement mechanism. Destructive conduct is made personally and socially acceptable by portraying it in the service of… — Albert Bandura Copy Share Image
I don't know if power seduces less or more. I think power is a constant evolving mechanism that, since the dawn of… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
I think we all have mechanisms that we use, each of us individually, to deal with pain that we've had or just… — Carrie-Anne Moss Copy Share Image
The Net is not television. It is the finest direct-marketing mechanism in the history of mankind. It is direct mail with free… — Seth Godin 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
Plan all you want for the future. Prepare for it. But don't worry about how you will react tomorrow, or even five… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
I like to think that people can see that and appreciate that idea and then, by some mechanism of wearing the fragrance,… — Jared Leto Copy Share Image
It is not understood that before life an individual decides to live. A self is not simply the accidental personification of the… — Seth Copy Share Image
Management has to provide the coordinating mechanism between what the supplier provides and what the user needs in not-good-enough situations where product… — Clayton Christensen Copy Share Image
Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower… — John D. MacDonald Copy Share Image
There were real reasons that you were attracted to somebody originally. The brain doesn't pick willy-nilly. Unless you part ways hating each… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
That last rep where you're trying as hard as you can and you barely make it! That is what turns on the… — Mike Mentzer Copy Share Image
So I do think sometimes the political mechanism is completely disconnected from the people. However, what I will say is that history… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It can be argued that the U.S. brokerage and investment banking industry has transformed the modern American stock market into nothing more… — Peter Schiff Copy Share Image
You don't need the painful memories, because either you've resolved them. Denying always makes them want to come back. Denial is a… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Most Americans stopped looking at what was happening through a variety of coping mechanisms - starting with women entering paid work and… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The growth of equality … calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Phænomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
One day I looked at something in myself that I had been avoiding because it was too painful. Yet once I did,… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
An economic system can remain viable only so long as society has mechanisms to counter abuses of either state or market power… — David Korten Copy Share Image
One idea I explore in my stand-up show is whether, if you try looking at the universe rationally and avoid coping mechanisms… — Robin Ince Copy Share Image
I realized that nature had invented reproduction as a mechanism for life to move forward, as a life force that passes right… — Louie Schwartzberg Copy Share Image
In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue… — Jose Ferreira Copy Share Image
By creating a prosecutor who is overseen over by a court, they are melding executive and judicial power in a way that… — John Bolton Copy Share Image
What frightened me was the logic of the world; in it lay the foretaste of something incalculably powerful. Its mechanism was incomprehensible,… — Osamu Dazai Copy Share Image
I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place… — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to… — Oliver Heaviside Copy Share Image
I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around… — Martina Sorbara Copy Share Image
We will have a mechanism for dealing with people in this country that - you heard the word humanely again. It is… — Mike Pence 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
You see tragedy requires persons of heroic stature. It works on the principle of people being more than humansuper-humanand also being only… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Nonsense, it was all nonsense: this whole damned outfit, with its committees, its conferences, its eternal talk, talk, talk, was a great… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
In the animal world, there are all kinds of behaviors that are binary: for example, to flee or to fight. In any… — Chris Adami Copy Share Image
We've spent the last few millennia aware that senescence is horrible but knowing nevertheless that it's inevitable. We've had to find some… — Aubrey de Grey Copy Share Image
I hold that we have a very imperfect knowledge of the works of nature till we view them as works of God,—… — James McCosh Copy Share Image
