Unconditionaly Quotes & Sayings

David Perkins,12 a Harvard psychologist who has devoted his career to improving reasoning, found the same thing. He says that thinking generally uses the "makessense" stopping rule. We take a position, look for evidence that supports it, and if we find some evidence - enough so that our position "makes sense" - we stop thinking. But at least in a low-pressure situation such as this, if someone else brings up reasons and evidence on the other side, people can be induced to change their minds; they just don't make an effort to do such thinking for themselves. — Jonathan Haidt

You can't get into the Hall of Fame unless you limp. — Casey Stengel

I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths. — John Cassavetes

My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time. — Ishmael Beah

The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition. — David Grubbs

After a certain age - and for some of us that can be very young - there are no new people, beasts, dreams, faces, events: it has all happened before ... — Doris Lessing

Experts are clueless. — Steve Jobs

Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life in a curious pattern. Its onset was often imperceptible: like an assiduous housekeeper locking up a rambling mansion, it noiselessly went about and turned off, one by one, the mind's thousand small accesses to pleasure. — Sebastian Faulks

Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect? — Cristina Marrero

Sex appeal was the "spoonful of sugar" that helped the "medicine" of feminism go down. A liberated heroine who still looked sexy would be less threatening to the male readers of comic books. — Mike Madrid

I looked back at some high school journals and discovered that I definitely wanted to be a writer, but not necessarily comedy. — Allison Silverman

Greitens later wrote in his book, The Heart and the Fist. — Tom Manion Tom Sileo