Familiarity Quote by Derek Thompson Download Open image ““The line from psychologists is, if you’ve seen it before, it hasn’t killed you yet.”” — Derek Thompson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Familiarity Heredity History Popular-science Psychology Survival
“I’m not a psychopath; my brain just works a little differently than that of the average person.” — J. Cornell Michel Copy Share Image
“Common human experience alone is no guarantee with which we can build a science of psychology.” — Wolfgang Köhler Copy Share Image
“I, myself, spent 9 years in an insane asylum and never had any suicidal tendencies, but I know that every conversation I had with… — Antonin Artaud Copy Share Image
“I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Violence. My body has learned to love violence, and my mind imagines terrible things” — D.S. Wrights Copy Share Image
“My brain works perfectly," she says. "I see a disgusting human being and it says die.” — Becca Ritchie & Kristia Ritchie Copy Share Image
“I always heard 'whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger' growing up. How so very foolish. In fact, what doesn't kill you is only… — Jeremy Caldwell Copy Share Image
“But profound as psychology is, it's a knife that cuts both ways (...). I have purposely resorted to this method, gentlemen of the jury,… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“Posting dramatic charts or funny pictures is good and giving people smart reasons to believe what they already think is great.” — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“The trick is learning to frame your new ideas as tweaks of old ideas, to mix a little fluency with a little disfluency—to make… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Picking a few hits requires a tolerance for many bad ideas, mediocre ideas, and even good ideas cursed with bad timing. Above all, it… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Cultural products will spread faster and wider when everybody can see what everybody else is doing. It suggests that the future of many hit-making… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Imitating recent successes is a game that everybody knows how to play. But seeing the next big thing before anybody else sees it is… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“The most important element in a global cascade isn’t magically viral elements or mystical influencers. Rather it is about finding a group of people… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“His lullaby was an instant success not because it was incomparably original, but because it offered a familiar melody in an original setting.” — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“Some consumers buy products not because they are ‘better” in any way, but simply because they are popular. What they’re buying is not just… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“It is the simplest phrase you can imagine,” Favreau said, “three monosyllabic words that people say to each other every day.” But the speech etched itself in rhetorical lore. It inspired music videos and memes and the full range of reactions that any blockbuster receives online today, from praise to out-of-context humor to arch mockery. Obama’s “Yes, we can” refrain… — Derek Thompson Copy Share
“People have all day to talk about what makes them ordinary. It turns out that they want to share what makes them weird.” — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“The mark of a good book is that you're happy to come home to it. The mark of a great book is that you… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
“In the psychology of aesthetics, there is a name for the moment between the anxiety of confronting something new and the satisfying click of… — Derek Thompson Copy Share Image
Part of the advantage, and part of the result of trying to be a producer and director, are the practical things, you find. It's… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
You have to know that you have to have familiarity with the artist that you want to be, but there's so much about it… — Monica Barbaro Copy Share Image
I'm sure there are a lot of Italians who refer to themselves as goombahs and greaseballs and whatever. That's what people do. It gives… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep… — Alexander Agassiz Copy Share Image
Vulgar and inactive minds confound familiarity with knowledge, and conceive themselves informed of the whole nature of things, when they are shown their form… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days… — George Gissing Copy Share Image
Today the greatest single deterrent to knowledge of Jesus is His familiarity. Because we think we know Him, we pass Him by. — Winifred Kirkland Copy Share Image
When you've worked in the same place for 13 years, when things go well, you know how to keep it going well. When things… — Brad Stevens Copy Share Image
The hues of the opal, the light of the diamond, are not to be seen if the eye is too near. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image