Books Quote by David DiSalvo Download Open image ““Bertrand Russell touches on this point in his book The Conquest of Happiness”” — David DiSalvo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bertrand Russel Bertrand Russell Books Conquest Happiness Happiness Russell Russell Touches
“Bertrand Russell, the British philosopher, concludes his book The Conquest of Happiness by describing a happy person thus: “Such a man feels himself a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“The possibility of judgment being passed on me supplanted any worries or questions I might have about Russell. At that age, I was, first… — Emma Cline Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.” — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“As the philosopher Bertrand Russell once observed, the rich “preach the dignity of labour while taking care to remain undignified in this respect”.” — Richard Newton Copy Share Image
“Happiness wasn't a mystical place to be reached or won--some bright terrain beyond the boundary of misery, a paradise waiting for them to find… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Here we must examine the classical understanding of happiness proclaimed by Moses, Solomon, Jesus, Aristotle, Plato, the church fathers and medieval theologians, and many… — J.P. Moreland Copy Share Image
“It is the chiefest point of happiness, she scribbled quickly, before the Commander could see, that a man is willing to be what he… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one’s values. Atlas” — Alex Ayres Copy Share Image
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“ "Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of… — Tony Hsieh Copy Share Image
“Happiness isn't reserved for privileged individuals. It is a state of mind that can neither be bought nor stolen nor traded; it is a… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings and are… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The best way to think of how our brains frame information is to imagine a picture frame, except unlike a normal frame, this one… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“the amPFC and PCC were shown to play a large role in self-referential thinking and autobiographical memory (essentially, the “me” part of your brain).” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“In German, bridge (die brucke) is a feminine noun; in Spanish, bridge (el puente) is a masculine noun. Boroditsky found that when asked to… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“selective attention,” also called “selectivity bias”—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“great deal of “green” marketing is predicated on the assumption that people will buy a green product to make themselves feel better about moral… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable to act… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
