“Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want – you go toward it. Sometimes you go very fast, and sometimes only an inch a year. Perhaps you feel happier when you go fast. I don't know. I've forgotten the difference long ago, because it really doesn't matter, so long as you move.”— Ayn Rand, amazon.com
“A synthesis — an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea — is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfer ideas from one area to another. That’s why great a…”— Barbara Oakley, amazon.com
“The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpretin…”— Malcom Gladwell, amazon.com
“Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, find mates, and reproduce. This momentous fact explains our deepest strivings: why hav…”— Steven Pinker, amazon.com
“In all these things — in the choice of nutrition, of climate and locality, of recreation — an instinct of self-preservation is in command, expressing itself most unambiguously as an instinct of self-defense. Not to see many things, not to hear them, not to let them approach one — first act of pruden…”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The influence of climate on the metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration goes so far that a mistake in climate or locality may not only alienate a person from his task, it can withhold him from it altogether: he never gets a look at it.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“Sit as little as possible; give credence to no thought that is not born in the open air and accompanied by free movement — in which the muscles do not also celebrate a feast.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“We think of forest fires as these devastating events that we need to stop, but they are actually vital to ecological health of an area. There are plants that require the heat of a wildfire for their seeds to burst open and plant themselves in the earth. There are others that are meant to be flammabl…”— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“The way other people feel about you is not your responsibility.”— Chrissy Stockton, Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“We judge ourselves by our intentions but others by their actions. We tend to think other people's mistakes are caused by character flaws while our mistakes are due to situational factors. Our good behavior is attributable to fundamental traits while other people's is temporary and situational. Thus…”— Richard O'Connor, amazon.com
“Ah, but prophecies have a way of fulfilling themselves,' Khayman said. 'That's the magic of it. We all understood it in ancient times. The power of charms is the power of the will; you might say that we were all geniuses of psychology in those dark days, that we could be slain by the power of anothe…”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“An integral approach is based on one basic idea: no human mind can be 100% wrong. Or, we might say, nobody is smart enough to be wrong all the time. And that means, when it comes to deciding which approaches, methodologies, epistemologies, or ways or knowing are "correct," the answer can only be, "A…”— Ken Wilber, amazon.com
“A few more indications of my morality. A hearty meal is easier to digest than one that is too light. The whole stomach working, the first condition for a good digestion. You must know the size of your stomach.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“It's as if each of us might somehow have a blueprint. As if somewhere there's the shape of my life, and I had the chance to choose a few variations, but not far from the pattern.”— David Vann, amazon.com
“Nothing in the world can bother you as much as your own mind, I tell you. In fact, others seem to be bothering you, but it is not others, it is your own mind.”— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, amazon.com
“The deepest yearning of human beings seems to be a constellation in which the two poles (motherliness and fatherliness, female and male, mercy and justice, feeling and thought, nature and intellect) are united in a synthesis, in which both sides of the polarity lose their antagonism and, instead, co…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“But a map is not enough as a guide for action; we also need a goal that tells us where to go. Animals have no such problems. Their instincts provide them with a map as well as with goals. But lacking instinctive determination and having a brain that permits us to think of many directions in which we…”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“If you expect the battle to be insurmountable, you've met the enemy. It's you.”— Khang Kijarro Nguyen, goodreads.com