Gyrene Quotes & Sayings

Commitment doesn't have conditions. A compassionate samurai follows through whether it feels good or not; average people do what they feel like doing. — Brian Klemmer

But human memories change each time they are recalled, Jon. This is known as memory reconsolidation. It's part of a natural updating mechanism that imbues even old memories with current information as you recall them. Thus, human memory does not so much record the past as hold knowledge likely to be useful in the future. That's why forgetting is a human's default state. By contrast, remembering requires a complex cascade of chemistry. Were I to increase the concentration of protein kinase C at your synapses, your memory retention would double. — Daniel Suarez

My former wife is a very eccentric woman, which is why I still love her. — Jay McInerney

Appearances may be deceiving. — Aesop

Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation. — Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic