Driven Quote by Susanna Kaysen

Mr. Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.…

— Evelyn Waugh

“And the New York Journal of Commerce, half-playfully, half-seriously, wrote: "Let us go to war. The world has become stale and insipid, the ships…

— Howard Zinn

Teams do not go physically flat, they go mentally stale.

— Vince Lombardi

Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“My apologies. Time and isolation do strange things. Of course, the levels of serotonin do not help,” the vampire said. “The what?” Domingo asked.…

— Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“As work continued, an important qualifier emerged. Low serotonin didn’t predict premeditated, instrumental violence. It predicted impulsive aggression, as well as cognitive impulsivity (e.g.,…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

The one thing we do know is that the chemical imbalance theory - the theory that people get depressed when they don't have enough…

— Irving Kirsch

“Starting with a 1979 study, low levels of serotonin in the brain were shown to be associated with elevated levels of human aggression, with…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“In neuroscience, our textbook showed how the brain scans of people newly in love look a lot like the brain scans of patients with…

— Daria Snadowsky

Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does…

— Chris Kilham

“In particular, aerobic exercises, like running and biking, are best at boosting serotonin. Interestingly, if you try to do too much exercise or feel…

— Alex Korb

“Stress reduces serotonin, probably the most important neurotransmitter for maintaining a good mood.”

— Rick Hanson