Dehaene Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

When writing the story of your life, don't let anyone else hold the pen. — Annisa Widi Astuty

There is no such thing, incidentally, as one kudo. — Bill Bryson

Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29]. — Sylvia Boorstein

This splendid subject [mathematics], queen of all exact sciences, and the ideal and norm of all careful thinking ... — G. Stanley Hall

I keep hitting [Escape], but I'm still here!
Unknown, but used by Karen Chance in Hunt the Moon — Karen Chance

The despot subdues his subjects, some of them by means of others, and thus is he protected by those from whom, if they were decent men, he would have to guard against himself; just as, in order to split wood, one has to use a wedge of the wood itself. Such are his archers, his guards, his halberdiers; not that they do not suffer occasionally at his hands, but this riff-raff, abandoned alike by God and man, can be led to endure evil if permitted to commit it, not against him who exploits them, but against those who like themselves submit, but are helpless. — Etienne De La Boetie

We have $70 and a pair of girl's underpants. We're safe as kittens. — Anthony Michael Hall

Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals. — William Graham Sumner