Ognian Todorov Quotes & Sayings

New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control. — Robert E. Ornstein

Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. — Charles Spurgeon

Being true to yourself is better than being a liar just to impress everyone. — Nancy Wright

The future story writer in the child I was must have taken unconscious note and stored it away then: one secret is liable to be revealed in the place of another that is harder to tell, and the substitute secret when nakedly exposed is often the more appalling. — Eudora Welty

One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion. — Anatol Rapoport

The historic transition from Novice to Proficient to Adept was said to be accomplished virtually overnight by the progression from marijuana to peyote to lysergic acid. Instant mysticism had arrived. Before the court of law, hippies demanded freedom for LSD the way early Christians demanded freedom for the Eucharist. — William Everson

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will? — Johnny Unitas

Among life's cruellest truths is this one: wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition. — Daniel M. Gilbert

I would have to go back to being a dog. I've called myself a dog for many years. — Hank Williams III

The software programs that make our body run ... were evolved in very different times. We'd like to actually change those programs. One little software program, called the fat insulin receptor gene, basically says, 'Hold onto every calorie, because the next hunting season may not work out so well.' That was in the interests of the species tens of thousands of years ago. We'd like to turn that program off. — Ray Kurzweil

Idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance. — Ellen Glasgow

Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player. — Nicola Peltz

Lewis at his best is about trying on ways of looking at the world. — Alister E. McGrath