Raisable Desk Quotes & Sayings

Batson figured out a clever way to tease apart whether empathy drives us to help because we want to reduce another person's distress or our own distress. If the goal is to reduce our own distress, we should choose whatever course of action makes us feel better. If the goal is to reduce another person's distress, we should help even when it's costly and other courses of action would make us feel good. — Adam M. Grant

You create your reality with your intentions. — Gary Zukav

I don't really care so much what people say about me because it usually is a reflection of who they are. For example, if people wish I would sound like I used to sound, then it says more about them than it does me. — Prince

[Bells] speak to us of our freedom, which responsibilities and transient cares make us forget. — Thomas Merton

Many people have vied to become the third Weinstein brother, and I'm not sure why, but that distinction only goes to one person - Quentin Tarantino. — Bob Weinstein

Granted, she was obviously one window lick away from riding the short bus, but that knowledge did nothing to ease my mind. — Tara Sivec

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative. — Fannie Hurst

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday. — Ben Harper

The fact - not theory - that evolution has occurred and the Darwinian theory as to how it occurred have become so confused in popular opinion that the distinction must be stressed. — George Gaylord Simpson