Gerry Fleck Quotes & Sayings

She has learned that she can control her emotions by thinking of her chest cavity as an enormous box with a chain lock. She opens the box and stuffs in any stray unmanageable feelings, any wayward sadness or regret, and clamps it shut. — Christina Baker Kline

Sometimes feeling nothing hurts the most.
— Karen Peterson

Prejudices emerge from the disposition of the human mind to perceive and process information in categories. "Categories" is a nicer, more neutral word than "stereotypes," but it's the same thing. Cognitive psychologists consider stereotypes to be energy-saving devices that allow us to make efficient decisions on the basis of past experience; help us quickly process new information and retrieve memories; make sense of real differences between groups; and predict, often with considerable accuracy, how others will behave or how they think.24 We wisely rely on stereotypes and the quick information they give us to avoid danger, approach possible new friends, choose one school or job over another, or decide that that person across this crowded room will be the love of our lives. — Carol Tavris

Facebook is studying emotional reaction to things and bringing you fewer of things you don't engage with and more of what you do. — Robert Scoble

You might even be punished for performance that by any reasonable measure is truly excellent. — Steven Cohen

I've seen some pretty strange things in my life, and more of them make me think magic is possible than not. — Bailey Cates

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable. — Mercedes Lackey

Bravery is the dead man's virtue. — Joe Abercrombie

Never strive, O artist, to create what you are not irresistibly impelled to create! — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

Strength is the ability to break up a solid piece of chocolate - and then eat just one of the pieces. — Jill Shalvis

People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about. — Marc Almond

Change isn't like a shutter click. It's never instant. — Lamar Giles

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. — Jonathan Ames