Muthukrishnan Krishnamurthy Quotes & Sayings

Self persuasion was a concept much loved by evolutionary psychologists. I had written a piece about it for an Australian magazine. It was pure armchair science, and it went like this: if you lived in a group, like humans have always done, persuading others of your own needs and interests would be fundamental to your well-being. Sometimes you had to use cunning. Clearly you would be at your most convincing if you persuaded yourself first and did not even have to pretend to believe what you were saying. The kind of self-deluding individuals who tended to do this flourished, as did their genes. So it was we squabbled and scrapped, for our unique intelligence was always at the service of our special pleading and selective blindness to the weakness of our case. — Ian McEwan

Did you know, the worst kind of demon is that which is disguised as a human". — Louise Gann

I never knew, until I came here, that my background could be something to apologize for. That these privileges were so randomly given to me, while other people were just as randomly denied...Privilege has begun to feel like and inescapable infection. I carry its implications with me, and my desire to understand how it works only seems to underscore it. — Jessica Posner

God knows everything. So why not run to him and tell him all the things that he already knows? — Kevin DeYoung

Everything is relative except relatives, and they are absolute. — Alfred Stieglitz

What they held was already inside me, and together we could get away. And standing over the smoldering pile of paper and type, still warm the next cold morning, I understood that there was something else I could do. "Fuck it," I thought, "I can write my own. — Jeanette Winterson

How easily the heart accustoms itself to comforts, and how difficult it is to tear one's self away from luxuries which have become habitual and, little by little, indispensable. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If you're Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston, and your marriage is breaking up - that's an awful thing. But to see that speculation in people, it's gotta sting a little bit. — Dave Chappelle

But this republic idea sounds like an improvement over our current government. — Suzanne Collins

I've always found it necessity to strip away everything but the most fundamental ways to work - the rest is style. — Twyla Tharp

When I was on that boat, I realized the only way I would feel creatively challenged was if I totally changed everything about my environment and put myself in a storm, in a sense. — Josh Lucas

In the street, the gaze of desire is furtive or menacing. — Mason Cooley

There is nothin' like a dame. — Oscar Hammerstein II

So her missing person's poster features a girl with long hair and dreamy eyes that don't see the fracture coming. — Helen Oyeyemi