Perena Dex Quotes & Sayings

While we do not place our faith directly in angels, we should place it in the God who rules the angels; then we can have peace. — Billy Graham

why do people always say they could get hit by a bus? Like life is just one big game of Frogger and people are getting struck left and right by dangerous city transport. — Colleen Oakley

So what does all this mean if you desperately want to persuade someone who doesn't want to be persuaded?

The first step is to appreciate that your opponent's opinion is likely based less on fact and logic than on ideology and herd thinking. If you were to suggest this to his face, he would of course deny it. He is operating from a set of biases he cannot even see. As the behavioral sage Daniel Kahneman has written: "We can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness." Few of us are immune to this blind spot. That goes for you, and that goes for the two of us as well. And so, as the basketball legend-cum-philosopher Kareem Abdul-Jabbar once put it, "It's easier to jump out of a plane - hopefully with a parachute - than it is to change your mind about an opinion. — Steven D. Levitt

My son, do not forget your father's instructions. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The only other animals that would be in the ballpark to be able to do it would be a gorilla, but it's not going to occur to a gorilla to strangle the life out of somebody. They might rip their head off, all right, but it wouldn't occur to a gorilla to just, I'm going to cut off your air. — Quentin Tarantino

Just like modern economic system, our relationships follow typical profit & loss mechanism where people are nothing more than useful tools. — Saurabh Sharma

As an actor, I'm rather hit and miss; I throw a lot out there, and some of it works and some of it doesn't. — Christopher Walken

It doesn't help to just get women's opinions and then turn them over to an all-white-male engineering team. — Anita Borg