Construal Quotes

#1. empathy is not a reflex that makes us sympathetic to everyone we lay eyes upon. It can be switched on and off, or thrown into reverse, by our construal of the relationship we have with a person. Its head is turned by cuteness, good looks, kinship, friendship, similarity, and communal solidarity.

Steven Pinker

#2. One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.

Sidney Nolan

#3. And Richard Bach said, 'A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks.

Mia Storm

#4. The wealthy ... live in marble mausoleums surrounded by the suspicions and neuroses that have replaced the medieval moats which once isolated so-called aristocrats from reality.

Elsa Maxwell

#5. The Roman Catholics teach that unless you're a Roman Catholic you do not go to heaven.

Neale Donald Walsch

#6. The question I constantly asked myself was this: What am I supposed to do?

Emily P. Freeman

#7. When somebody says 'it's just a book' smile because they just don't understand.

George R R Martin

#8. I'm the rogue Canadian in my family - I just happened to be born here while my parents were studying here.

Eleanor Catton

#9. I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.

Redd Foxx

#10. Gardening can become a spiritual exercise, teaching us discernment as we eliminate the weeds from our lives, giving what we value room to grow.

Diane Dreher

#11. The great failure in education, much of the time, is the lack of excitement and stimulus

Bill Bryson

#12. I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.

Beth Ditto

#13. We don't see people as they are. We see people as we are.

Anais Nin