Burkhard Quotes & Sayings

If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love. — Mortimer Adler

You can see the future best through peripheral vision. — Nicholas Negroponte

Growing older is a blurred birth certificate that only can take us to this world's perplexed journey, but it cannot smear the letters of the epitaph — Munia Khan

Not everybody needs to go to university; they can get out and start working straight away. — Alan Sugar

I am no longer able to be anonymous. — Kristin Bauer Van Straten

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence. — Eric Hoffer

There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none. — Chuck Norris

So now is the time, more than ever, for those who truly value all the principles of democracy, especially including dissent, to be the most forceful in speaking up, standing up and speaking out. — Jim Hightower

Those who live a long life without realising their spiritual goals are as similar to the hygienic zombies walking on earth. — Vishal Chipkar

I honestly believe that the counsel I gave Curt was mainly sound, and I don't think too much of it was holier-than-thou. I tried to give him a code to live by. He wanted not one scrap of it, he didn't agree with a single value that I held. — Wallace Stegner

The brain, he writes, is like Kublai Khan, the great Mongol emperor of the thirteenth century. It sits enthroned in its skull, "encased in darkness and silence," at a lofty remove from brute reality. Messengers stream in from every corner of the sensory kingdom, bringing word of distant sights, sounds, and smells. Their reports arrive at different rates, often long out of date, yet the details are all stitched together into a seamless chronology. The difference is that Kublai Khan was piecing together the past. The brain is describing the present - processing reams of disjointed data on the fly, editing everything down to an instantaneous now. How does it manage it? — Burkhard Bilger

One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording every last detail of the experience. The more detailed the memory, the longer the moment seems to last. "This explains why we think that time speeds up when we grow older," Eagleman said
why childhood summers seem to go on forever, while old age slips by while we're dozing. The more familiar the world becomes, the less information your brain writes down, and the more quickly time seems to pass. — Burkhard Bilger

It takes a dream to get started, desire to keep going, and determination to finish. — Eddie Harris

Everyone who is 12 and reads a book has a good chance to get 13 or even 70 and read it again — Burkhard Spinnen