Antonio Damasio Quotes

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

Antonio Damasio

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• Moral authority has been laid to rest, world opinion is no more than a game show and the difference between good and evil is about as relevant as changing channels.

  

  Ralph Steadman
  • World
  • Good
  • Game

• The whole world has American dreams. This country has people from all parts of the world. We have Irish who live here, we have Brazilians.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• It's not every day that you get to be affectionate around something, it just doesn't happen that often.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Every audition I get, I agonise over and I put everything I can into it.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Everything
  • I Can
  • Audition

• Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Sometimes

• I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

  

  Harry Browne
  • World
  • Remember
  • War

• Cryptocurrencies in general give us a stable medium through which we can communicate our information about values and prices in a way that no government mandarin can distort or usurp. For the predators who have used our central institutions to predate on the rest of humanity, it's a very bad development.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Bad
  • Government
  • Rest

• A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

  

  Ralph W. Sockman
  • God
  • Men
  • Service

• The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that's usually the case when there's a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Resistance

• The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.

  

  Gary Sherman
  • Death
  • Political
  • Content

• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Changing
  • Faults
  • Them

• Parenting is tough.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Tough
  • Parenting

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • You
  • Purpose
  • Hustler

• We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Truth
  • Stop
  • Politics

• I believe that every person, male and female, needs to be in a protective mode at all times of alertness to potential danger. The world is full of potential attacks, potential disasters.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • World
  • Believe
  • Potential

• Voters are hungry for principled, conservative fighters - because the threat to our liberties from Washington never has been greater.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Been
  • Hungry
  • Washington

• When I was little, I grew up in a place called Hertfordshire, which is just near London, but out in the country, and I visited Pakistan in the summers to go and see my family on my dad's side.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Up
  • Country
  • Family

• Focusing on skills, communications, and community allows the project to be more effective and more agile than focusing on processes and plans.

  

  Alistair Cockburn
  • Project
  • Effective
  • Focusing

• You get over your first love by falling in love with something new.

  

  Mo Ibrahim
  • Firsts
  • Something
  • Falling

• The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • People
  • Reason
  • Contrary

• It's sort of cheesy to introduce that to the drums - those dings and dongs and bell sounds. That's definitely one of the reasons people are like 'oh yeah, they sound like Tom Waits, with those trashcan drums.' But at the same time, it sounds so good! And it introduces this... I mean, it's not tuned, but somehow it adds this extra layer of melodic texture.

  

  Carey Mercer
  • People
  • Mean
  • Reason

• Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Reason
  • Emotions
  • Networks