Desteno Quotes & Sayings

But to paraphrase Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind, ignorance and mediocrity are forever busy, and the forces of mediocrity aren't content with being mediocre; they'll do everything in their power to prevent even the humblest of teachers and children from accomplishing anything extraordinary. For good work shines a light on the failures of the mediocre, and that is a light which terrifies those who conspire to keep our nation's children, like themselves, ordinary. — Rafe Esquith

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

humans appear to have a built-in immune system for threats to their own well-being. If we're about to blame ourselves for bad behavior, our minds intervene with a whitewash. — David DeSteno

I'm telling you lady I'm only human, not looking for impossibility. Just a genuine woman with sincerity. — Buju Banton

Lessons will repeat to you in various forms until you have learned them. When you have learned them, you can then go on to the next lesson. — Cherie Carter-Scott

So he caught her in his arms and kissed her, and they were very happy, and told each other what a beautiful world it was, and how wonderful it was that they should have found each other, seeing that the world is not only beautiful but rather large. — E. Nesbit

Bezos personifies a new breed of executive that arose with the emergence of the game-changing technologies in the 1980s and 1990s ... a 'productive narcissist' ... These executives have big enough egos to make up seemingly random rules of business leadership. However, unlike other narcissists, they get the job done. — Richard L. Brandt

Where'd that world go, that world when you're a kid, and now I can't remember noticing anything, not the smell of the leaves or the sharp curl of dried maple on your ankles, walking? I live in cars now, and my own bedroom, the windows sealed shut, my mouth to my phone, hand slick around its neon jelly case, face closed to the world, heart closed to everything. — Megan Abbott

Trusting others puts us at risk. Yet failure to trust entails risk as well. The ability to navigate through this minefield successfully is one of life's most valuable assets. DeSteno provides by far the best account of what science has learned about how we do this. The Truth About Trust is also a terrific read. — Robert H. Frank

I've also found that at the bottom of all of these qualities is love. If you have enough love you have enough courage, enough love then you have patience. — Dorothy Maclean

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make. — Haruki Murakami

Talking to the Taliban is a process the Afghans have to manage. It is their country. — Philip Hammond

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling. — Scott Weiland

If brandy was made out of sparrows there would soon be no sparrows. — Georg C. Lichtenberg