Nora Volkow Quotes

#1. With improv, it's a combination of listening and not trying to be funny.

Kristen Wiig

#2. The cells of an organism are nodes in a richly interwoven communications network, transmitting and receiving, coding and decoding. Evolution itself embodies an ongoing exchange of information between organism and environment.

James Gleick

#3. Addiction is a disease - a treatable disease - and it needs to be understood.

Nora D. Volkow

#4. The Mass-and I mean every single Mass-is heaven on earth. Literally.

Scott Hahn

#5. Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Gautama Buddha

#6. Sometimes I feel better around you. I kind of like your face' -Nick

Sarah Rees Brennan

#7. I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction, ... But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

Nora Volkow

#8. I sleep five or six hours a night, then crash at the weekend. I'm learning to eat properly and exercise. I relax by watching silly sitcoms like 'Scrubs' and 'How I Met Your Mother.'

Elise Andrew

#9. Do the choices I make line up with how I really want to live?

Tsh Oxenreider

#10. The secret of following God's will is wrapped in rejecting the good for God's best.

K.P. Yohannan

#11. The pupil is ... 'schooled' to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

Ivan Illich

#12. The inability to stop is the essence of what addiction is, ... my favorite drug was more and all.

Nora Volkow

#13. I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.

Laura Mvula

#14. I am tired of this city. I am tired of its pagan pretensions and false histories. Hyperion is a poet's world devoid of poetry. Keats itself is a mixture of tawdry, false classicism and mindless, boomtown energy.

Dan Simmons

#15. It was a slow fade from belief to disbelief, one that was so gradual she hardly realized it was happening.

Christy Barritt

#16. We should start using the mind as a tool, he argues, instead of letting the mind use us, which is the normal state of affairs. When Descartes said 'I think, therefore I am,' he had not discovered 'the most fundamental truth', Tolle insists; instead, he had given expression to 'the most basic error'.

Oliver Burkeman