Yvetta Collins Quotes & Sayings

Life is too short to hide your wrongs. So I hide myself instead. — Tarryn Fisher

Develop for it?" he told InfoWorld. "I'll piss on it. — Brent Schlender

Whether you like it or not, you're a national figure after five games at Notre Dame. — Ara Parseghian

From the beginning, of course, I had known that the pure forcefulness of my argument would not penetrate deep enough to effect any change. It almost never does. It's never worked for me when I've been in therapy. Only when one feels an insight in one's bones does one own it. Only then can one act on it and change. Pop psychologists forever talk about "responsibility assumption," but it's all words: it is extraordinarily hard, even terrifying, to own the insight that you and only you construct your own life design. Thus, the problem in therapy is always how to move from an ineffectual intellectual appreciation of a truth about oneself to some emotional experience of it. It is only when therapy enlists deep emotions that it becomes a powerful force for change. And powerlessness was — Irvin D. Yalom

God loves cleanliness.
The environment must be kept clean. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgive me ... I called you an idiot. I spoke too hastily. You are not. Had I given it more thought, I would have called you a scoundrel. — Lloyd Alexander

Optimism: That effervescent, blindingly- bright, perky, chipper, twittering quality you want to squash out of annoying people. — Richelle E. Goodrich

To the extend that a man with the soul filleted out of him could be happy. Since the things he had wished for were no more, he wished for nothing. He breathed in and out. That was all. — Sebastian Barry

But do not give up your practice; continue it, knowing your weakness. — Shunryu Suzuki

When a male vole repeatedly mates with a female, a hormone called vasopressin is released in his brain. The vasopressin binds to receptors in a part of the brain called the nucleus accumbens, and the binding mediates a pleasurable feeling that becomes associated with that female. This locks in the monogamy, which is known as pair-bonding. If you block this hormone, the pair-bonding goes away. Amazingly, when researchers crank up the levels of vasopressin with genetic techniques, they can shift polygamous species to monogamous behavior.38 — David Eagleman

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind. — Thomas Babington Macaulay

All you really need to know for the moment is that the universe is a lot more complicated than you might think, even if you start from a position of thinking it's pretty damn complicated in the first place. — Douglas Adams

I went through one period when I smoked a surprising, a really breath-taking, amount of grass almost every night. — David Letterman