E. O. Wilson Quotes
Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.
Quotes to Explore
-
It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
-
I think people appreciate honesty.
-
I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
-
During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
-
Anything - a destination, a person - that has some mystery around it becomes exciting and attractive.
-
I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
-
But though cognition is not an element of mental action, nor even in any real sense of the word an aspect of it, the distinction of cognition and conation has if properly defined a definite value.
-
At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
-
Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
-
Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.
-
There was no military reason to drop atomic bombs on Japan. They were used as terrorist weapons - killing innocent people to influence other people.
-
I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
-
I wear a lot of boyish stuff, but I prefer to throw a fur coat on top just for the hell of it.
-
I never had any backlash from the model-turned-actor thing.
-
There are far too many people in university in Britain. If you want to make money, be a plumber.
-
These days we're all hyper-aware of the canonical way in which stories are supposed to play out - people are taught all about three-act scripting and where to put the reversal and all of that - and I think we can do more interesting narratives.
-
Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
-
You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect.
-
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
-
When I look back on my marriages, or the breakups, sure I know the pain I went through, but that's part of life and it has its own value.
-
Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.
-
I don't think that attorneys should be in any way running for governor.
-
Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
-
Because the brain can be guided by rational calculation only in a limited degree, it must fall back on the nuances of pleasure and pain mediated by the limbic system and other lower centers of the brain.
