Luedke Excavating Quotes & Sayings

The children were watched through a one-way mirror, and the film that shows their behavior during the waiting time always has the audience roaring in laughter. About half the children managed the feat of waiting for 15 minutes, mainly by keeping their attention away from the tempting reward. Ten or fifteen years later, a large gap had opened between those who had resisted temptation and those who had not. The resisters had higher measures of executive control in cognitive tasks, and especially the ability to reallocate their attention effectively. As young adults, they were less likely to take drugs. A significant difference in intellectual aptitude emerged: the children who had shown more self-control as four-year-olds had substantially higher scores on tests of intelligence. — Daniel Kahneman

The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some. — George Bernard Shaw

Sin is man's, last attempt to perfection. — Anthony Liccione

We're reaching the point where the Earth will have to end the burden we've placed on her, if we don't lift the burden ourselves. — Steven M. Greer

I failed first grade, which is my biggest problem. You always feel like a failure, like you're stupid. — Amy Sedaris

He could Andi"
Andi's heart turned to ice.
It wasn't possible.
He was dead, cast away into some deep, dark hell where he'd never be able to claw his way out. — Sasha Alsberg

To a wise man, the whole earth is open; for the native land of a good soul is the whole earth. — Democritus

I don't know how to make it better. Neither did I. and maybe ... maybe wouldn't get better. Rider had said nothing last forever, but some things, some scars, ran Too Deep to ever fade away — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Sevarin had been dismissive about the chance of finding out anything useful from the cops, but when it came to getting information, I had an edge he didn't.
Sevarin did not make a killer lasagne. — Sarah Zettel

Big Data will spell the death of customer segmentation and force the marketer to understand each customer as an individual within eighteen months, or risk being left in the dust. — Ginni Rometty

Chicks. Christ. They just don't get it sometimes. — Karen Marie Moning

I carry on in my own narrow little tunnel and we have very different experiences of life even though we live together. — Siobhan Fahey

The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest. — Carl Von Clausewitz