Post Positivist Quotes

#1. Overloading the HPA axis, especially in infancy and childhood, produces all kinds of serious and long-lasting negative effects - physical, psychological, and neurological.

Paul Tough

#2. My success wasn't based on how I could push down everybody that was around me. My success was based on how much I could push everybody up.

George Lucas

#3. As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.

Haruki Murakami

#4. My brother,' Mortin says as Leidan shuffles away. 'So much potential, wasted.' He takes a swig of beer. I wonder whose potential he really thinks is wasted. I look through his upturned drink at the walls and ceiling. Things look sadder when glimpsed through alcohol.

Ned Vizzini

#5. Birth deals us out a hand of cards, but as important as their value is the place we are dealt them in.

David Mitchell

#6. Medical professionals concentrate on repair of health, not sustenance of the soul. Yet

Atul Gawande

#7. We might embody those qualities we desire to possess by embracing them, over and over, until the line between seeming and being is no more.

Jacqueline Carey

#8. When you chronically interrupt your time with whom ever you're with to answer your phone/text you are saying that the caller is more important.

Jayce O'Neal

#9. I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed.

Umberto Eco

#10. I think it's realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: 'I despair. The world's no good.' That's a perverse idealist. It's practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species. That's very realistic.

Studs Terkel

#11. It's just that I landed up in a terrific capitalist system. One that pays people who allocate capital extraordinarily well. Intrinsically, I'm not worth as much as somebody who invents something that could improves people's life, or health or whatever.

Warren Buffett

#12. He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era

Jocelyn Gibb

#13. Step into a new you each day. Reach out to greater health, happiness, fitness, friendship, love and greater pride in yourself.

Mark Victor Hansen

#14. We are metered only by our own machines,
while the book is a clock that forgets her machanics.

Amy King

#15. As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there for a long time. I've been working on being able to let things go. I don't think I ever want to buy property again.

Ricky Williams

#16. If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.

Hal Sparks

#17. [Country Music] is the final destination for many punk rockers [ ... ] Rockabilly is the mid-point and then [they] end up at Country [ ... ] There's purity to that music and I think that appeals to a lot of punk rock people - the precision, the purity, and the directness of Country Music.

John C. Reilly