Paul Zak Quotes

#1. Neuroeconomist Paul Zak has found that hearing a story - a narrative with a beginning, middle, and end - causes our brains to release cortisol and oxytocin. These chemicals trigger the uniquely human abilities to connect, empathize, and make meaning.

Brene Brown

#2. We [the Amish] look alike. We pray alike. We live alike ... But none of these things mean we all think alike.

Jodi Picoult

#3. Oxytocin connects us to other people; oxytocin makes us feel what other people feel. And it's easy to cause people's brains to release oxytocin. Let me show you. Come here. Give me a hug.

Paul J. Zak

#4. DREAM PREDICTION ELITE is the realization of true amazement in your audiences reactions. This is PURE GOLD - A REAL WINNER

Banachek

#5. You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.

Paul J. Zak

#6. [We] administered testosterone to men; instead of sharing money, they become selfish. Interestingly, high testosterone males are also more likely to use their own money to punish others for being selfish.

Paul J. Zak

#7. Oxytocin is love. Oxytocin is within you.

Paul J. Zak

#8. Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.

Paul J. Zak

#9. I HAVE A HEARTBURN AND DIAHREA AT THE MOMENT
LIFE'S ABITCH. CHAT LATER?
[signed] SORE TUSH

Mitch Albom

#10. Autumn wins you best by this its mute appeal to sympathy for its decay.

Robert Browning

#11. I have two daughters that are the loves of my life and I want to leave them a better world, a better country, a better state and a better city.

Michael Bloomberg

#12. In Shakespeare, tragedy was the flame struck from the clash of moral principles; here

Garth Risk Hallberg

#13. I would hate to think of the theatre world without critics. Without them, we'd not have the record of each season.

Marian Seldes

#14. Trust is kind of this economic lubricant. When trust is high, morale is high ... Higher trust environments produce individuals who are happier.

Paul J. Zak

#15. Doctors were admired, lawyers universally hated and mistrusted.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#16. Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

Paul J. Zak

#17. Showing kindness causes oxytocin release in the recipient that motives him or her to be kind to others. You can start this virtuous cycle in the simplest ways, for example, by giving someone a hug. I send you a hug!

Paul J. Zak

#18. I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.

Charles Walters

#19. Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Christian Nestell Bovee

#20. "The less random stuff you hear about, the more room in your ears for music, that's what I always say" -Paisley

Lynn Weingarten

#21. Left-wing zealots have often been prepared to ride roughshod over due process and basic considerations of fairness when they think they can get away with it. For them the ends always seems to justify the means. That is precisely how their predecessors came to create the gulag.

Margaret Thatcher

#22. Attitude, humor and action (persistence) will whip fears and rejection. Fear of failure doesn't exist, if you believe it doesn't.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#23. I just know when I quit looking to other people for directions, I found my own map.

George Ella Lyon

#24. Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?

Paul J. Zak

#25. Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the future in which even greater mechanized forces will bring us victory. Therein lies the destiny of the world.

Charles De Gaulle