Crazyassgreek93 Quotes & Sayings

It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture. — Christopher Hitchens

There's a lot of scientific evidence demonstrating that focused attention leads to the reshaping of the brain. In animals rewarded for noticing sound (to hunt or to avoid being hunted, for example), we find much larger auditory centers in the brain. In animals rewarded for sharp eyesight, the visual areas are larger. Brain scans of violinists provide more evidence, showing dramatic growth and expansion in regions of the cortex that represent the left hand, which has to finger the strings precisely, often at very high speed. Other studies have shown that the hippocampus, which is vital for spatial memory, is enlarged in taxi drivers. The point is that the physical architecture of the brain changes according to where we direct our attention and what we practice doing. — Daniel J. Siegel

Being a parent, I'm acutely aware of how hard it is to get good childcare. — Maya Harris

Don't be who you needed to be over there. Come home to the people who love you. I wish to hell I'd figured out a way to do that. — Kristin Hannah

In a world of a billion Christians, there should never be a moment on the planet when hurting people feel orphaned by God. — Johnnie Moore

Latin American republics were among the first to discover that it was relatively painless to default when a substantial proportion of bondholders were foreign. — Niall Ferguson

He said: Who then are the true philosophers? Those, I said, who are lovers of the vision of truth. That is also good, he said; but I should like to know what you mean? To — Plato

The only thing constant in life is change. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld