Mithen Quotes & Sayings

We're finished, God. From now on, you answer your own fucking prayers. — Brent Weeks

TV has been very good to me, and I hope I've been good to it, but I also love film. — David Anders

Kelly Clarkson is the most adorable person on the planet. She is just so nice. — Callie Khouri

Deutsch and her colleagues, in their 2006 paper, suggested that their work not only has "implications for the issues of modularity in the processing of speech and music ... [but] of the evolutionary origin" of both. In particular, they see absolute pitch, whatever its subsequent vicissitudes, as having been crucial to the origins of both speech and music. In his book The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body, Steven Mithen takes this idea further, suggesting that music and language have a common origin, and that a sort of combined protomusic-cum-protolanguage was characteristic of the Neanderthal mind. — Oliver Sacks

To gain an understanding of the mind leads on to an appreciation of what it means to be human. — Steven Mithen

The two centrepieces of social intelligence are the possession of extensive social knowledge about other individuals, in terms of knowing who allies and friends are, and the ability to infer the mental states of those individuals. — Steven Mithen

Our present moment is a mystery that we are part of. Here and now is where all the wonder of life lies hidden. And make no mistake about it, to strive to live completely in the present is to strive for what already is the case. — Wayne Dyer

For some reason, people look at me and laugh. I don't know why. — Zooey Deschanel

It is because of this notion [of species essence] that we demand that a severely brain-damaged person should have the same rights as a university professor, or a physically disabled person the same rights as an Olympian sportsman. They are all 'human', whatever their intellectual and physical abilities. — Steven Mithen

Include me out," he — John Flanagan

[W]hen trying to understand the character of the modern mind, it is impossible to separate the effects of genes and the developmental environment. — Steven Mithen

The secret to success is to stop when you're ahead. — Darren Shan