Sam Kean Quotes
The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
Quotes to Explore
-
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's best talents and greatest ideas.
-
Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.
-
Students are very gullible about the web. The only way you can really sort out information on the web is if you've had a prior training in book culture.
-
One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
-
The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
-
When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
-
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
-
And one cannot discharge the duty of loyalty without the patient and an open minded study of the institution that marked the country and defined its character.
-
Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
-
I think that the greatest lesson I learned from my father is just having compassion towards people.
-
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
-
I'm inhabiting a life I'm not supposed to be in... and at certain times in my life, I have felt a wrongness. And not a moral wrongness but a sense that this isn't what I was born to be doing.
-
In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
-
Originally I had planned to revert to nuclear physics there, in particular the structure of the deuteron.
-
You lose the speed before the stamina.
-
I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.
-
My first priority is trying to protect my family.
-
I didn't grow up in a wealthy family at all. Being at home all day and watching movies, that was a luxury.
-
I'm one of those fellows so frightened of driving that I go 80 miles an hour - and the more frightened I get, the faster I go.
-
Life is God's art.
-
You're made to feel ugly, and I made ugly beautiful. Just by sheer persistence. Nobody has the right to say that I am ugly, and I will not be a professional victim, you know. Sorry!
-
Members of the middle class do not have to worry about falling off $250,000 sailboats because they don't have $250,000 sailboats to fall off of.
-
I wanted to be the most famous. And it wasn't until I hung out with Justin Bieber that the whole thing got demystified. The mystique of it was gone.
-
The amygdala is indeed crucial for monitoring our environment and deciding what's worth getting worked up over. Once the amygdala determines this, however, it merely trips another circuit to actually produce the panic.
