Dopaminergic Quotes

#1. I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment.

Semir Zeki

#2. I once spoke to 9,000 people, but they managed to fit them all into a structure that resembled a Zeppelin hangar, so it was a contained space in which whatever laughter I generated could ricochet and hang around for a bit, encouraging others to join in.

Christopher Buckley

#3. If a man's associates find him guilty of being phony, if they find that he lacks forthright integrity, he will fail. His teachings and actions must square with each other. The first great need, therefore, is integrity and high purpose.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#4. I've often told people who ask if there is a God: Get around enough people with horses and see what happens. See how they survive in spite of all the things they do, and you'll become a believer!

Buck Brannaman

#5. A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

Angela Carter

#6. In the early stages of negotiation software, on your smartphone, there may be programs that listen to the pitch of a voice, or that test for stress. You'll just ask the program, 'Was he lying? Was he eager to do business with me?' Maybe the computer will be right sixty per cent of the time.

Tyler Cowen

#7. I am not a painter, nor an artist. Therefore I can see straight, and that may be my undoing.

Alfred Stieglitz

#8. You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

David Sedaris

#9. Just think: in all the clean, beautiful reaches of the solar system, our planet alone is a blot; our planet alone has death.

Annie Dillard

#10. I guess people feel like they kind of know me. The game developer me, or the Twitter persona, that's Notch. It's a censored version. The real me is Markus.

Markus Persson

#11. People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.

Blanka Vlasic

#12. You know what makes me stop crying?"
"What, darlin'?"
"Kisses. Lots and lots of kisses."
"Careful what you wish for, beautiful.

J.T. Geissinger

#13. Success is manufactured in the Mind, while Happiness is cultivated in the Soul

Philip McKernan

#14. There is a cultural movement in the white working class to blame problems on society or the government, and that movement gains adherents by the day. Here

J.D. Vance