It turns out our brain is sensitive, maybe too sensitive, to motion. It's a survival mechanism. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette Copy Share Image
Only let a man say that he will do something and a whole mechanism goes to work to stop him. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The laws of physics must provide a mechanism for the universe to come into being. — John P. Wheeler III Copy Share Image
I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism. — John Major Copy Share Image
I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism. — Katharine Jefferts Schori Copy Share Image
With comedy, a lot of people develop their sense of humor as a defense mechanism. — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
I am interested in the study of music and the discipline of music and the experience of music and music as a… — Anthony Braxton Copy Share Image
Humor was also a defense mechanism from getting picked on at school. If I could be funny maybe people wouldn't bother me. — Pandora Boxx Copy Share Image
Our feelings are a feedback mechanism to us about whether we're on track or not, whether we're on course or off course. — Jack Canfield Copy Share Image
I remember saying to the chairman after serving the first year, 'Why are we doing this? Why don't the Hawaiians have control?'… — Neil Abercrombie 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
I see God in the instruments and the mechanisms that work reliably, more reliably than the limited sensory departments of the human… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Flying alone! Nothing gives such a sense of mastery over time over mechanism, mastery indeed over space, time, and life itself, as… — Cecil Day-Lewis Copy Share Image
I think I came to see Islam, or at least one part of Islam, as an important defense mechanism against the commercialization… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
I think markets are mechanisms that determine prices that are necessary for mass heterogenous populations, and markets do generate levels of technological… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
And it (the left brain) has a massive role within this reality, yes. It is basically the point where infinite consciousness joins… — David Icke Copy Share Image
Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What the artist tries to do (either consciously or unconsciously) is to not only capture the essence of something but also to… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
Much if not all we know about the complex mechanism responsible for the development (and stagnation) of productive forces, and for the… — Paul A. Baran Copy Share Image
Obsessional does not necessarily mean sexual obsession, not even obsession for this, or for that in particular; to be an obsessional means… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
The true and lasting genius of humour does not drag you thus to boxes labelled 'pathos,' 'humour,' and show you all the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The aging process seems to strike first at the mechanism which warns that we have been talking too much and the listener… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
To be sure, the use of force by one party in a market transaction in order to improve his price was no… — Immanuel Wallerstein Copy Share Image
I am someone who proudly and humbly affirms that love is the mystery-of-mysteries, and that nothing measurable matters 'a very good God… — e. e. cummings Copy Share Image
When profits are pursued by geographic interchange of goods, so that commerce for profit becomes the central mechanism of the system, we… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
Faculty Psychology is getting to be respectable again after centuries of hanging around with phrenologists and other dubious types. By faculty psychology… — Jerry Fodor Copy Share Image
Using SROI to explore the value of our online question and answer service, askTheSite, helped us develop new mechanisms for speaking to… — Sarah McCoy Copy Share Image
I have already indicated to you the meaning of the word religion, as applied to Islam. The truth is that Islam is… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“We have come to understand the phenomena of life only as an assemblage of the lifeless. We take the mechanistic abstractions of… — William Barrett Copy Share Image
When I first started comedy, before I kind of gained any national prominence, I - in a weird way - went back… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
