Circuitries Quotes

#1. Much like addictive drugs, power uses ready-made reward circuitries in the brain, producing extreme pleasure.

Nayef Al-Rodhan

#2. If we're highly empathetic and emotionally sensitive we're at greater risk of becoming involved with a manipulator.

Adelyn Birch

#3. If you are truly innovating, you don't have a prototype you can refer to.

Jonathan Ive

#4. Mortal fear is the ghetto of the human soul, to be free of it something like the psychic equivalent of inheriting a hundred million dollars.

Ben Fountain

#5. But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium?

William Dalrymple

#6. The idea of liberalism has to be recreated. In the course of time it has lost so much of its clarity and attraction that it first has to rise like a new dawn in front of the people.

Friedrich Naumann

#7. The expected vertical line of Ikiru's narrative breaks when Kurosawa does a flash-forward in the middle of the film.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#8. The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular.

George Santayana

#9. I want to do more audio originals because I think that it is a fascinating medium. If you think about it, this is original storytelling.

David Hewson

#10. If you really want something, you should stop until you get it, no matter what you have to do.

Priscilla Glenn

#11. Lifeless and shockingly alien in that place where dissolution itself was a seething turmoil of ejaculation tumescence conception and birth, and death did not even exit.

William Faulkner

#12. I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society.

Nelson Mandela

#13. Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

Lynne Cheney

#14. This boy needs a dog.
What makes you say that?
He needs someone or something to play with besides his phone and an old man and an old woman doddering around.

Kent Haruf