"Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in……" — Steven Pressfield
"Evolution has programmed us to feel rejection in our guts. This is how the tribe inforced obedience, by wielding the threat of expulsion. Fear of rejection isn't just psychological; it's biological. It's in our cells."
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187 Quotes by Steven Pressfield
Steven Pressfield has 187 quotes on this site.
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More Biological Quotes
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My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children.
— Michele Bachmann
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Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid.
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It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why…
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The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security…
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In Darwin's time all of biology was a black box: not only the cell, or the eye, or digestion, or…
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The threat from Saddam Hussein and weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological, potentially nuclear weapons capability - that threat…
— Tony Blair
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Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks…
— Madeleine Albright
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What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a…
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Life, in my estimation, is a biological misadventure that we terminate on the shoulders of six strange men whose only…
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Being a biological mother just isn't part of my experience this time around. However, I am a mother who continues…
— Kim Cattrall
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And the fact of the matter is there were thousands of people that went through those training camps in Afghanistan.…
— Dick Cheney
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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the…
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