Mascagni Furniture Quotes & Sayings

The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimating the importance of situation and context. — Malcolm Gladwell

Most of the misery of the world has been caused by wars. And when the wars were over, no one ever knew what they were all about. — Margaret Mitchell

I wake up feeling like I spent the last three days in a massage parlor. My muscles are relaxed, and I feel refreshed, like I could climb Mount Everest or build an ark or cure the world of minivans. — Victoria Scott

People are already self-selected by the time they've decided to become scientists. — Jonathan Miller

Suicide can be used as a very cruel weapon, you know. It can be the ultimate revenge, leaving a scar that a living person may carry to the grave. — Patricia Moyes

You will know it is love when the need can't be met by yourself or God. — Shannon L. Alder

teaching the students I did before the accident helped me understand that a disability isn't necessarily a bad thing. It can be handled — Amy Rankin

Maybe Duke was just the kind of person you don't keep in your life, but the kind of person that changes your life forever. — Stephanie Witter

Many people pray to be kept out of unexpected problems.
Some people pray to be able to confront and overcome them. — Toba Beta

Emotions are given to us by God, so that we can fully experience our experiences. The only problem with emotions is that we get addicted or attached to them. We take them as final or substantive. Emotions do have the ability to open you to consciousness, but then they tend to become the whole show. Most human thought is just obsessive, compulsive commentary. It's "repetitive and useless," as Eckart Tolle says. I would say the same of emotions.
Contemplation allows you to see (contemplata means "to see") this happening in yourself ...
Contemplation and silence nip the ego and its negatives in the bud by teaching you how to watch and guard your very thoughts and feelings - but from a place of love and not judgment. — Richard Rohr

When I asked if she read poetry anymore, she said no. she had lost her taste for it. That was how she said it, lost her taste. I asked how that could happen, and she said she agreed with Plato, or at least Plato as summarized for her: that there was something dishonest about it and that he was right to want to banish the poets.

What she mean't, she told me, was that the only reality was life, real life, and that these beautiful versions were lies and she no longer had patience for it. — Daphne Kalotay

Hungary is very similar to Bulgaria. I know they're different countries. — Kevin Keegan

Seventy-five per cent of being successful as an actor is pure luck. The rest is just endurance. — Gene Hackman

There is perhaps, nothing more likely to disturb the tranquillity of nations, than their being bound to mutual contributions for any common object that does not yield an equal and coincident benefit. For it is an observation as true, as it is trite, that there is nothing men differ so readily about as the payment of money. — Alexander Hamilton