Jason Silva Quotes

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
  • American
  • Future

• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Different
  • Die
  • Luckier

• There are things that government can do to incentivize the free market to do a better job, yes. But is that a replacement for getting in the way, actively, of the fossil fuel industry and preventing them from destroying our chances of a future on a livable planet? It's not a replacement.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Job
  • Future
  • Free

• I'm based here in L.A., but I think in the future I might consider settling down in Malaysia when I start a family.

  

  Yuna
  • Family
  • Future
  • Start

• Its not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Stress
  • U.S.
  • Reaction

• Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Future
  • Dreams

• I'm sure that was the right step, even though, formally speaking, it may seem disadvantageous for a president to resign. But, looking into what is happening today and what is going to happen in the future, I think history will show I made the right decision.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • May
  • History
  • Future

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Stupid
  • Stress
  • Research

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• I am extraordinarily fascinated by the future of technology. We are in the early infancy of technology, and we have an opportunity to guide how technology develops and integrates into our lives. I talk a lot about the 'invisible interface,' or the idea that we can utilize technology without being absorbed into a screen.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Future
  • Opportunity
  • Technology

• If somebody has too much stress about their appearance, they can overcome their inferiority complex through surgery.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Stress
  • Appearance
  • Too Much

• Google owns YouTube, and recently, I drew a comic about an idea for a YouTube feature - which they actually took seriously and implemented. So I'm thinking that maybe we'll have a future where Google is 'xkcd.'

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Google

• Young people who have no future will easily give up their future, which they can't see on the horizon.

  

  Yossi Sarid
  • People
  • Up
  • Future

• I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Past

• Nobody wants a prediction that the future will be more or less like the present, even if that is, statistically speaking, an excellent prediction.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Future
  • Present
  • Nobody

• A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• I haven't done much voice-over work, but I enjoy it. I'm hoping to do more in the future.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Work
  • Done
  • Future

• I was aware, however, that telling at any point in my career could adversely affect my future career.

  

  Anita Hill
  • Future
  • Career

• But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Die
  • Possible
  • Thinks

• Natalie Portman is one of my favorites, and Jodie Foster. Those two are amazing actresses.

  

  Alexa Vega
  • Amazing

• In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Economic
  • Move
  • Integration

• We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

  

  Jason Silva
  • Future
  • Die
  • Stress