432 quotes found
“The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rar...”
“Try to forgive by trying to understand how it would feel to be in the other’s shoes. If someone hurts you – ask them - “What hurts you so much that you would do this?” Listen to the answer and try ...”
“How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularit...”
“Yes, I do think that not everything from the past is outmoded. Giving yourself a chance to possess something very good, taking your time, that's important. Yes, I think everything goes by too fast ...”
“A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the w”
“Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention.”
“To be surprised, to wonder, is to begin to understand. This is the sport, the luxury, special to the intellectual man. The gesture characteristic of his tribe consists in looking at the world with ...”
“How is it that there are so many minds that are incapable of understanding mathematics? ... the skeleton of our understanding, ... and actually they are the majority. ... We have here a problem tha...”
“Brethren, you won’t believe what I discovered. I found out that in every place, people listened to the message (the shift our churches need) with full attention and total bewilderment. The question...”
“People think that they think things, and they also think that they know things. They could usefully give some attention to the question of whether they know what they think and know what they think...”
“Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start paying attention to what I’m touching.”
“…because I was only eleven years old, I was wrapped in the best cloak of invisibility in the world.”
“I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness - it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude.”
“Never explain yourself to people, just make them feel you.”
“You can't get attention of one who focused on himself.”
“Sophia was asked to speak to the students of a local medical school. “Sophia, what do we need to be better doctors?” the students asked. “Doctors,” Sophia said, “need strong stomachs and strong pow...”
“Mother nature changes her looks for the same reason any woman changes her looks—to be noticed.”
“Wherever you are, be there. If you can be fully present now, you’ll know what it means to live.”
“A man who goes into a restaurant and blatantly disrespects the servers shows a strong discontent with his own being. Deep down he knows that restaurant service is the closest thing he will ever exp...”
“People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.”
