Akerman Llp Quotes & Sayings

When the environment makes gender salient, there is a ripple effect on the mind. We start to think of ourselves in terms of our gender, and stereotypes and social expectations become more prominent in the mind. This can change self-perception, alter interests, debilitate or enhance ability, and trigger unintentional discrimination. In other words, the social context influences who you are, how you think and what you do. — Cordelia Fine

Institutions or products of culture. But they formalize a set of norms. — Niall Ferguson

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair. — William Cowper

A 'why' is a dangerous thing ... It challenges old, comfortable ways, forces people to think about that they do instead of just mindlessly doing it. (Haplo)
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I think the danger is not so much in asking the 'why' as in believing you have come up with the only answer. (Alfred) — Margaret Weis

It is when your practice is rather greedy that you become discouraged with it. — Shunryu Suzuki

This is what it means to serve: improving another's life and, in turn, improving the world. — Daniel H. Pink

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none. — Seneca The Younger

It can get a little complicated when you have the expectation that you're supposed to live Happily Ever After with this person when they were designed to stay with you for just a little while. Our Master designs it this way so you make the most of the relationship when you have it. She thought all soul mates were meant to be forever, when some soul mates are just meant to be. — Kate McGahan

I report, I decide. — Stephen Colbert

Ho! We are being taunted by some sort of otherworldly fireflies. Someone fetch me my rifle! — Tad Williams

I have to laugh internally when I'm asked in interviews what nightspots I like to hit. I just don't have answers ... so sometimes I make them up. — Wentworth Miller

I don't enjoy trying things on, even though most times it's necessary. I tend to only shop online, which is so dangerous for me. — Stella Hudgens

You can get pigeonholed in Hollywood and people think of you in a certain way. — Luke Wilson

The wolf had been trained by the man, or had trained himself unassisted, to divers wolfish arts, which swelled the receipts. "Above all things, do not degenerate into a man," his friend would say to him. Never did the wolf bite: the man did now and then. At least, to bite was the intent of Ursus. He was a misanthrope, and to italicize his misanthropy he had made himself a juggler. To live, also; for the stomach has to be consulted. — Victor Hugo

Standing at the point where these photographs were taken, you're immersed in the most unbelievable quiet. It's like being at the bottom of the sea except instead of a rusted shipwreck there's an ancient farmhouse. Even the thoughts in my head sounded loud, and sometimes I found my heart beating hard for no reason except as a reaction against the silence. — Tom Rob Smith