Neuroeconomics Decision Making Quotes & Sayings

Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun, and others have had like similes. I am more humble. I am a mere street scavenger (chiffonier) of science. With my hook in my hand and my basket on my back, I go about the streets of science, collecting what I find. — Francois Magendie

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.' — Jennifer Sky

We animate what we can see, and we see only what we animate. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't take the will for the deed; get the deed. — Lewis Mumford

I always felt like I was a freak when I was growing up and that there was something wrong with me because I couldn't fit in anywhere. — Madonna Ciccone

That decision to commit your life to certain principles and a certain narrative, if I wrote a paper on that, I know I'd find inconsistencies. — Matt Stone

I was raised by maternal grandparents who were born in 1890 and 1899, respectively. They were British subjects; George V was the cousin of the tsar. The Romanovs were very real in their household. — Kathryn Harrison

It's always hard to be away and relocate. When you relocate for a film, there's an end in sight. — Shane West

We were deluged together in the raw, unbalanced Stuff of the universe. Inevitable consequence:
My own little reification.
I was made flesh, and in the process taken from him. I was never supposed to be real. How terrifying to confide your every doubt to an imaginary companion, to bequeath to him every alternative, and then one day turn and see him standing before you. Gonzo must be feeling so hollow inside, with me spun out and separated from him. It must be quiet and empty in there.
And that, of course, is how I survived being shot. Freshly minted, new, I wasn't real enough to die. — Nick Harkaway

Laughter is a medicine you've got to use to drive away blues. — Goswami Kriyananda

[Children should contribute] to a family's essential survival and happiness. [In] an urban society, children are ... robbed of the opportunity to do genuinely responsible work. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

The sorrows of children are profound and unsuspected ... — Nan Fairbrother

Conditions for God.-1' God himself cannot subsist without wise men," said Luther, and with good reason ; but " God can still less subsist without unwise men,"-good Luther did not say that! — Friedrich Nietzsche