Conferenza App Quotes & Sayings

The revolution is built on three simple facts. (1) Every human movement, thought, or feeling is a precisely timed electric signal traveling through a chain of neurons - a circuit of nerve fibers. (2) Myelin is the insulation that wraps these nerve fibers and increases signal strength, speed, and accuracy. (3) The more we fire a particular circuit, the more myelin optimizes that circuit, and the stronger, faster, and more fluent our movements and thoughts become. — Daniel Coyle

This is just a phase, right? This whole bloodlust thing? — Isabelle Rowan

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns. — Henry David Thoreau

When I came to again - parched, pain rampaging through my intestines - I was in my bed. The little bedside lamp illuminated two anxious faces, my sister's and Mrs. P.'s (the latter looking a shade guilty, I noted, no doubt realizing that it was effectively through her negligence that I had been forced to poison myself) [ ... ] "I think he has eaten many kidney beans." Mrs. P. shuddered. "Many kidney beans not cooked." "Beans!" I cried again deliriously. "Oh for heaven's sake," Bel said. "Charles, listen carefully, did you soak the beans before you cooked them?" "Of course I didn't soak them," I said. "What are you talking about? — Paul Murray

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame. — Jose Rizal

A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature. — Joseph Addison

How great the lie right to the top: We don't torture people in America and people who say we do simply know nothing about our country. — George W. Bush

This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love. (292) — Jessica Stern

One should never judge anything unless it is known. — Rene Descartes

The baby, assailed by eyes, ears, nose, skin, and entrails at once, feels it all as one great blooming, buzzing confusion. — William James

The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place. — Noam Chomsky

For Christians, who believe they are created in the image of God, it is the Godhead, diversity in unity and the three-in-oneness of God, which we and all creation reflect. — Desmond Tutu

Jinnah is a constant source of inspiration for all those who are fighting against racial and group discrimination. — Nelson Mandela