Frans de Waal Quotes

Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

Frans de Waal

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• I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven, or science-fantasy. Since then it's been a song here, a song there. It's not really a constant theme. I've written far more about my problems with religion, with God and all that.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Time
  • God
  • Long

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• Definitely, I think I'm a life coach for real. The lessons I give are lessons you can take to the bank.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Life
  • Real
  • Think

• We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Country
  • Small
  • Build

• Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Work
  • Home

• My hair and my accent are sort of my main assets.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Hair
  • Assets
  • Accent

• We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Decisions
  • Tools
  • Data

• The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

  

  Ramsey Clark
  • Quality
  • Measure
  • Citizen

• I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Weakness
  • Disaster
  • Sequence

• As soldiers in Israel's army, one of the most grueling training regimens we had to endure was a long march while carrying a comrade on a stretcher.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Long
  • Training
  • Army

• I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Daughter
  • Editor

• Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • Great
  • Passion
  • Creative

• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • May
  • Help
  • Creative

• A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Man
  • Everyone
  • Politician

• It's like with feminism. We talk a lot about feminism meaning complete freedom, and for some people, that means, like, 'Free the nipple!' But there's another end of the feminist spectrum, and that's where people like me are.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Free
  • Freedom

• My mantra is simple: work gets you work, and good work gets you good work.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Society
  • Capitalism
  • Truths

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

  

  Jeremy Northam
  • People
  • Emotional

• Life is more than a theory, and love of truth butters no bread: old men who have had to struggle along their way, who know the endless bitterness, the grave moral deterioration which follow an empty exchequer, may well be pardoned for an over-wish to see their sons secured from it; hunger, at least, is a reality...

  

  James Anthony Froude
  • Life
  • Men
  • May

• Sometimes we make decisions because it seems to be the only path visible at the moment. It's only later that we see there was more than one path, but the others were blocked from our vision at the time. That's the thing with hindsight, you see. Even if you can see it clearly, there's no going back. It's at that point we need to turn around and stare ahead and make a new life.

  

  Karen White
  • Moments
  • Decision
  • Sometimes

• Very ancient parts of the brain are involved in moral decision making.

  

  Frans de Waal
  • Decision
  • Brain
  • Moral