Alert Quote by Peter Diamandis

Now the amygdala is our early warning detector, our danger detector. It sorts and scours through all of the information looking for anything in…

— Peter Diamandis

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

— Peter Diamandis

“The “Intense World” paper proposed that if the amygdala, which is associated with emotional responses, including fear, is affected by sensory overload, then certain…

— Temple Grandin

“Powerful support for an amygdaloid role in fear processing comes from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In PTSD sufferers the amygdala is overreactive to mildly…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“The amygdala responds to imaginary information in the same way it responds to a real situation, so anxiety brought about by thoughts and images…

— Matt Lewis

When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction!

— Peace Pilgrim

I think that when you're constructing entertainment; thrillers, horror movies, or anything that's gonna scare, they're all based on what our natural worries are.

— Julianne Moore

Hysterical optimism will prevail until the world again admits the existence of tragedy, and it cannot admit the existence of tragedy until it again…

— Richard M. Weaver

Horror has always reflected societal anxiety. Like 'Godzilla' coming out of the aftermath of nuclear war. It tells us what we as a society…

— Nia DaCosta

It may well be our brains are wired up to be slightly more optimistic than they should be.

— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a…

— Bruce Lee

Not all is doom and gloom. We are beginning to understand the natural world and are gaining a reverence for life - all life.

— Roger Tory Peterson