"A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who……" — Jonathan Gottschall
"A boxing contest is a brain-damage contest. Who can give out more brain damage and who can absorb more of it?"
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31 Quotes by Jonathan Gottschall
Jonathan Gottschall has 31 quotes on this site.
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We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all…
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I have this little neighbor next door. He comes over and tells me about playing Call of Duty, and he's…
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The brain stays up all night telling stories while we sleep. We just call them dreams.
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Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we…
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We are creatures of story, and the process of changing one mind or the whole world must begin with 'Once…
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Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence.…
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In my profession more generally, it's not an exaggeration to say that masculinity is viewed as the root of all…
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Whenever I was confronted in the schoolyard, I found some way to avoid the fight. I ran for it. I…
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What you do in a fight gym is learn how to be brave. You're learning how to punch and kick…
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It's an empirical question whether training makes one more or less likely to get in a fight outside the gym.…
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Getting punched in the face with a padded glove doesn't really hurt your face. It doesn't hurt your skull. The…
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Fighting is really, really rewarding. I truly enjoyed it. I got feelings from fighting that were bigger than those I…
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More Absorb Quotes
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one of 407 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
— Aristotle
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American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.
— Henry Adams
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It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another person's plate.
— Dave Barry
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To love someone is to isolate him from the world, wipe out every trace of him, dispossess him of his…
— Jean Baudrillard
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All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of…
— Theodor Adorno
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You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad…
— Jo Brand
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I've been so blessed to have my career gradually get bigger and bigger, so I've been able to absorb stuff…
— Luke Bryan
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I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so…
— Pearl S. Buck
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it…
— Pearl S. Buck
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That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.
— Michael Chabon
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It was stumbling on to really the bible of the blues, you know, and a very powerful drug to be…
— Eric Clapton
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