Hyperpalatable Quotes

#1. The media have become masters at packaging stimuli in ways that our brains find irresistible, just as food engineers have become expert in creating "hyperpalatable" foods by manipulating levels of sugar, fat, and salt.11 Distractibility might be regarded as the mental equivalent of obesity.

Matthew B. Crawford

#2. We are African in origin and American in birth.

Timothy Thomas Fortune

#3. Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.

Julian Assange

#4. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant.

Eckhart Tolle

#5. It was a complex endeavor so without Robert Redford's constant support we wouldn't have gotten to the end.

Walter Salles

#6. My first inkling that I might have a yen for directing came when I realized I enjoyed creating plays for my various sports teams more than I actually liked playing the game.

Mark Waters

#7. Your life is a divine self.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Peace of mind is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.

Scott Hawkins

#9. Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come out of my subconscious.

Arca

#10. An idyllic childhood is probably illusion.

Martha Grimes

#11. How sad they are, the promises we never return to. They stay in our mouths, roughen the tongue, lead lives of their own.

Jane Hirshfield

#12. I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

Greg Louganis

#13. Sometimes you have to be alone to think, and sometimes the best place for thinking isn't home.

Heather Brewer

#14. You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the first place.

Guillermo Del Toro