Hearthpwn Quotes & Sayings

David Perkins,12 a Harvard psychologist who has devoted his career to improving reasoning, found the same thing. He says that thinking generally uses the "makessense" stopping rule. We take a position, look for evidence that supports it, and if we find some evidence - enough so that our position "makes sense" - we stop thinking. But at least in a low-pressure situation such as this, if someone else brings up reasons and evidence on the other side, people can be induced to change their minds; they just don't make an effort to do such thinking for themselves. — Jonathan Haidt

Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment. — Mark Steyn

When people come to me, they come usually for spiritual blessings, they come for the heart to be opened, because if it's not, we're not going to be able to channel our way through the course, and I think that most people know that there is that understanding that something has to open within us before we begin to resolve our problems, and so it is at all levels that they come. — Maya Tiwari

There is all the different in the world between paying and being paid. — Herman Melville

At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that the best books already existing, besides being old, treat chiefly of aboriginal customs and habits now extinct, and of the introduction of Christianity and subsequent historical events. — Isabella Bird

I was sort of lazy at school, but I realize I still have something to bring to the subject which is comforting. I feel I am not as stupid as I thought I was. — Michel Gondry

The thing about losing any loved one, I think, particularly in a long disease, is that you know that other people have gone through it and are going through it, but I think for every person it feels unique. — Patti Davis

She was becoming sad. There is no joy involved in following others' expectations of yourself — Miriam Toews

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable. — Paul Frank Baer

To play the trumpet well, a musician can not let more than a few days pass without practicing. — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It was just as all the Kettral said: You went to Hook to escape your problems and came back with a dozen more. — Brian Staveley

What did I expect to happen tomorrow? Did I want things to go further with Callahan? Or was I holding back because I still harbored feelings for Fin? — Brenda Pandos