Ron Sterling Quotes & Sayings

I sometimes imagine there is a clerk behind a desk situated between the brain and the mouth. It is his job to examine utterances on their way out, and stamp them with approval or send them back for reconsideration. If such a clerk exists, mine must be very harried and overworked; and on occasion he puts his head down on the desk in despair, letting things pass without so much as a second glance. Suhail — Marie Brennan

A way of seeing is also a way of not seeing. — Kenneth Burke

We have so many Christians who want to change the world, but they don't want to change themselves. — Christine Caine

Every religion in the world that has destroyed people is based on love — Anton Szandor LaVey

In his family the dead were much discussed. He absorbed the content of these conversations and transmuted them into what passed for memory. This serves the purpose. The dead don't come back, to quibble or correct. — Hilary Mantel

My goal is simple. It is to take the human civilization with me on the path of sweet general harmony. — Abhijit Naskar

Doubts are suppressed by groups ... But remember that the internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception. — Daniel Kahneman

It is impossible to park a Ferrari (healthy new belief systems) in a space that is taken up by an old wreck (negative old belief systems). — Melanie

British researchers found that one smile can generate the same level of brain stimulation as up to 2,000 bars of chocolate. The same study found that smiling is as stimulating as receiving up to 16,000 pounds Sterling in cash. That's like 25 grand a smile. — Ron Gutman

It's the little mistakes that lead to big mistakes. — Pittacus Lore