Adam Alter Quotes

#1. I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Robert Breault

#2. Each of us is an ongoing product of the world within us, the world between us, and the world around us - and their hidden capacity to shape our every thought, feeling, and behavior.

Adam Alter

#3. A duty which becomes a desire will ultimately become a delight.

George Gritter

#4. I envision presenting parents with a marketplace of school choices - public, private, parochial, charter, virtual, blended, and home education. They then can choose the model that best equips their children for success.

Jeb Bush

#5. Both physical and social pain seem less painful when we're cushioned by symbolic reminders of money, even when the money isn't real or doesn't belong to us.

Adam Alter

#6. I lost myself in the bubble of music - driving myself to be a success.

Dan Hill

#7. They're distracting because they remind us of the world beyond the immediate conversation,

Adam Alter

#8. It's like an angel crying on your tongue.

Bruno Heller

#9. Denial of one appetite sharpens the others.

Mason Cooley

#10. Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it when they got it does not alter the fact that they certainly got it.

Charles Williams

#11. The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

John Szarkowski

#12. Addictive tech is part of the mainstream in a way that addictive substances never will be.

Adam Alter

#13. When you separate an entwined particle and you move both parts away from the other, even at opposite ends of the universe, if you alter or affect one, the other will be identically altered or affected. Spooky. (Adam in Only Lovers Left Alive)

Jim Jarmusch

#14. In 2000, Microsoft Canada reported that the average human had an attention span of twelve seconds; by 2013 that number had fallen to eight seconds. (According to Microsoft, a goldfish, by comparison, has an average attention span of nine seconds.)

Adam Alter

#15. I feel at home in an orchestral score.

Placido Domingo

#16. As perfume doth remain In the folds where it hath lain, So the thought of you, remaining Deeply folded in my brain, Will not leave me: all things leave me: You remain.

Arthur Symons

#17. I've learned that the effort sportsmen and women put in is incredible. Their commitment to their sport is phenomenal. Sometimes as a viewer, as a sports fan, you only see the end result.

Jill Douglas

#18. Vyacheslav and Marina chose a generic name designed to be devoid of meaning: BOHdVF260602. Although the name seems meaningless, BOHdVF260602 stands for "Biological Object Human descendant of the Voronins and Frolovas, born on June 26, 2002.

Adam Alter

#19. The Hannah study showed that people are suggestible, willing to view the world with the guidance of labels when faced with an otherwise unbreakable tie.

Adam Alter

#20. When you give yourself for others, everything and everyone becomes yours.

Debasish Mridha

#21. As French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre noted sixty years ago, as soon as we imagine we're being watched, we start to notice how we're behaving, and we begin to imagine how other people might respond if they were watching.

Adam Alter