Wired Quotes
117 quotes by 106 authors
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We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities.…
— Allan Pease
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‎What color is a chameleon placed on a mirror? ... The chameleon responding to its own shifting image is an apt analog of the human…
— Kevin Kelly
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It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's…
— Dan Wells
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Perfect hexagonal tubes in a packed array. Bees are hard-wired to lay them down, but how does an insect know enough geometry to lay down…
— Peter Watts
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It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
— George C. Marshall
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We are wired to find love.
— Helen Fisher
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I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is…
— Kristin Armstrong
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A vast percentage of the human race is literally not wired neurologically to get irony. Well more than half of humanity takes life at face…
— Douglas Coupland
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Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different…
— Alison Gopnik
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We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has,…
— Simon Schama
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I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
— Simon Schama
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Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy…
— Henry Cloud
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Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us…
— Seth Shostak
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I had a very good job in corporate America, but I quickly knew that was not how I was wired.
— Bill Rancic
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Poe had this curious kind of alchemical courage, where he took all the terrible things and terrors that happened in his life, all this shame…
— John Cusack
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High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in…
— Nancy Gibbs
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Some social scientists say that in-group/out-group biases are hard-wired into the human brain. Even without overt prejudice, it is cognitively convenient for people to sort…
— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair…
— John Updike
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This wired generation is kind of cool.
— LeVar Burton
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Soul development depends on attachment and bonding. Every brain and body is genetically wired to develop itself, but the full soul development of brain and…
— Michael Gurian
Who Wrote These Wired Quotes
106 authors contributed a total of 117 Wired Quotes, led by these top contributors: