Edwaldo Santos Quotes & Sayings

When we are tired or preoccupied - what psychologists call 'resource-depleted' - we start to economise, to conserve those resources. Higher-order thinking is more expensive. So too is doubt, scepticism, arugment. 'Resource depletion specifically disables cognitive elaboration,' wrote Harvard psychologist Daniel Gillbert ... Because it takes less brain power to believe than to doublt, we are, when tired or distracted, gullible. Because we are all biased, and biases are quick and effortless, exhaustion tends to make us prefer the information we know and are comfortable with. We are too tired to do the heavier lifting of examining new or contradictory information, so we fall back on our biases the opinions and the people we already trust — Margaret Heffernan

These Filipinos will be your worst enemies if you commit the imprudence of attacking the Spaniards without the necessary preparation. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

We should not give away a moment to anyone who does not deserve it. — Deb Caletti

Don't do that with me," he replied, staring down at me with a look of almost hunger on his face. "We're too much alike to pretend with each other. At least when we're alone, lets be who we truly are. — Sara B. Larson

Fantasy is the playground of the mind.
Play hard.
Play often.
Read. — Roh Morgon

Genes aren't designed to make us happy. They design us to make
more copies of themselves. — Joe Quirk

There's probably more history now preserved underwater than in all the museums of the world combined. And there's no law governing that history. It's finders keepers. — Robert Ballard

I come from a family of working women, my mum went to work two weeks after I was born - my parents had no money, there was no choice. — Lindsay Davenport

Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart. — Maria Edgeworth

If the Product Is Good, It Will Naturally Attract Customers — Laura Busche

Until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and ... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures. — Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain. — Parker Young

Who knows what Yale thought it was getting when it hired Richard Rodriguez? The people who offered me the job thought there was nothing wrong with that. I thought there was something very wrong. I still do. I think race-based affirmative action is crude and absolutely mistaken. — Richard Rodriguez

Fight only in direst need
Not for lust or petty greed
Honor those that do give birth
Respect them well for their full worth — Anne McCaffrey

The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever
in short, to be the bohemian. — Thomas Wolfe