Horace Pinker Quotes & Sayings

Much of the mystery surrounding drug action can be cleared up by recognizing that drugs affect only the rate at which biologic functions proceed; they do not change the basic nature of existing processes or create new functions. — Robert Berkow

A problem with global reasons cannot effectively be met with local measures. — Carl Grip

When we start polling people, it's often because we don't trust our own knowing. It feels too shaky and too uncertain. — Brene Brown

More than a few people, some of whom think they know me quite well, have remarked that they are struck that I, who can seem so even-keeled and imperturbable, would choose to write a book about anxiety. I smile gently while churning inside and thinking about what I've learned is a signature characteristic of the phobic personality: "the need and ability" - as described in the self-help book Your Phobia - "to present a relatively placid, untroubled appearance to others, while suffering extreme distress on the inside."c — Scott Stossel

those times when uncertainty that hangs overhead that the most beautiful and unexpected parts of yourself are revealed. Do — Liz Schulte

Look at me
Who am I supposed to be?
Look at me
What am I supposed to be?
Look at me
Oh my love — John Lennon

Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?'
I shook my head. 'No, but I've watched. I know what you mean.' The walls of a heart are thick and strong, and the surgeons use heavy needles. It takes a good bit of strength, but it pulls together neatly. As much as anything it's like binding a book.
The seat of human emotion should be the liver,' Doc Homer said. 'That would be an appropriate metaphor: we don't hold love in our hearts, we hold it in our livers.'
I understood exactly. Once in ER I saw a woman who'd been stabbed everywhere, most severely in the liver. It's an organ with the consistency of layer upon layer of wet Kleenex. Every attempt at repair just opens new holes that tear and bleed. You try to close the wound with fresh wounds, and you try and you try and you don't give up until there's nothing left. — Barbara Kingsolver

A leader is one who sees more than others see, who sees farther than others see, and who sees before others do. (Leroy Eims) — John C. Maxwell

All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us. — Eugene H. Peterson

I'm one of the people that when I wake up I have to do what I do. It's not like I want to do it. I kind of have to do it. — Denis Leary

Lucas - You'll have to excuse Paige's overenthusiastic attempt to befriend the local wildlife. Not many of their type where she comes from.
Paige -Hey, we have gangs in Boston.
Lucas - Ah, yes. I believe they're particularly bad down by the wharf, where they're liable to descend upon the unwary, surround him with their yachts, and shout well-chosen and elegantly elocuted epithets. — Kelley Armstrong

And in that vastness, it seemed like every memory existed only to disappear one day. — Vatsal Surti