Counterintuitively Quotes

#1. Flavor is, counterintuitively, less than 10% taste and more than 90% smell.

Timothy Ferriss

#2. If you want to be a good intuitive Bayesian - if you want to naturally make good predictions, without having to think about what kind of prediction rule is appropriate - you need to protect your priors. Counterintuitively, that might mean turning off the news.

Brian Christian

#3. Counterintuitively, self-hatred is one of the leading symptoms of clinical narcissism. Only by telling yourself and the world how much you hate yourself can you receive the reliable shower of praise and admiration in response that you feel you deserve ...

Stephen Fry

#4. This is like my dad's race team where we had one Legend car. If we wrecked it, we couldn't race the next week unless we had enough parts to put it back together again.

Kurt Busch

#5. Who needed to argue and exchange insults when you could just annoy the hell out of someone by being overly friendly and bubbly?

Suzanne Wright

#6. God Himself was crucified with Christ, for Christ was one with the Father.

Ellen G. White

#7. Halt shook his head. Frankly, he'd seen sacks of potatoes that could sit a horse better than Erak

John Flanagan

#8. You cannot have two foundations. Either you stand and act from your heart and soul, or your life will flow from the animal soul, the nafs, your lust and greed and forgetfulness, which are characteristics of what dies and does not surrender to receive the compassion of God.

Bahauddin

#9. The law of the [Cub Scout] pack guides the boys to move in the direction of being helpful, friendly, courteous, trustworthy and promote qualities which parents and the community are looking for. The whole purpose of scouting is to help the children grow up making good decisions in life.

John C. Maxwell

#10. And now everyone else I ever love is going to think me boring. Because I used it all up on you.

Pleasefindthis

#11. Those who find ecstasy do so not by visiting the shrines of civilization but by trudging in the swamps of human destitution and misery. Our literature of ecstasy recounts the dark nights of the soul and encounters with mystics in the slums and in the refugee camps of genocidal wars.

Alphonso Lingis

#12. The therapist, he thought, and it bothered him a lot more than it should have. After all, he had nothing permanent with Sophie. He just needed to touch her on a semiregular basis or he couldn't finish his sentences.

Jennifer Crusie

#13. What I want is to hold you like a bell holds space between the hours.

Miguel Murphy

#14. Doesn't seem right, does it? A split second to lose him and a lifetime to grieve over him.

Tim Bowler