Top 100 Quotes About Wired
#1. With electricity we were wired into a new world, for electricity brought the radio, a "crystal set" and with enough ingenuity, one could tickle the crystal with a cat's whisker and pick up anything.
Theodore White
#2. And window, put the plastic Frosty the Snowman on the blacktop, wired up the
Janet Fitch
#3. Robot Wars is not a sport. Guys just play with remote controls. Now, if they were wired up and got an electrical shock each time their robot got hammered, then, yes, it would be a sport.
Paolo Di Canio
#4. Brands are the solution, not the problem. Brands are how you sort out the cesspool ... Brand affinity is clearly hard wired. It is so fundamental to human existence that it's not going away. It must have a genetic component.
Eric Schmidt
#5. Women are natural leaders. They are wired to lead.
Daniel Amen
#6. When you go into the other worlds, when you go into the luminous dimensions, it's very different than here. You really have to have your act wired. You have to be very strong. Your mind has to be in the right shape. Otherwise, when you get out there, what you will see will drive you mad.
Frederick Lenz
#7. Because sometimes I was tired of feeling so much and I just wanted to shut down and not feel anything. But I guess I wasn't wired that way. All I could do was write about it. Get it out of my head and onto something like paper that I could manage easier.
Jon Skovron
#8. The mind is wired by society, the heart is wired by your deepest desires for a blissful life.
Steven Redhead
#9. My golf is so delicate, so tenuously wired together with silent inward prayers, exhortations and unstable visualizations, that the sheer pressure of an additional pair of eyes crumbles the whole rickety structure into rubble.
John Updike
#10. Take a close look at nature and you'll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, "I'm not the same person I used to be," is the greatest of all miracles.
Toni Sorenson
#11. I know, I should've just shut him down like a Broadway Musical, but that's just not the way I'm wired.
Lynne Spears
#12. There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.
Stephen King
#13. Don't waste another minute dealing with a toxic, negative, energy-draining person. Some people are wired for negativity. They love being argumentative, combative and abusive. Run for your life as quickly as possible.
Les Brown
#14. Endings are a part of life, and we are actually wired to execute them. But because of trauma, developmental failures, and other reasons, we shy away from the steps that could open up whole new worlds of development and growth.
Henry Cloud
#15. [Being a good comedian] is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.
Nick Swardson
#16. I am so tired. Tired--but so so so wired to the moon.
Caitlin Moran
#17. People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
Richard Paul Evans
#19. Our brains are wired to interpret shapes as faces and bodies. That's why people see the Virgin Mary in the clouds or even in cheese sandwiches. It's your cytoplasm, not some strange ectoplasm.
Seth Shostak
#20. We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
Simon Schama
#21. When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
Maria Semple
#22. Nothing is really new in this high-tech, globally wired world, except how frequently it is.
David Allen
#23. Hey, Barack Obama had to give up his Blackberry. He's the first wired president ... He might have to give his Blackberry because of security reasons. Because they're easy to hack into. In fact, when Obama heard he might have to give it up, he said, 'OMG! WTF?' I mean, he couldn't believe it.
Jay Leno
#24. God has wired you to tell others in a way that allows you to be yourself. Evangelism is not just for extroverts, brainboxes or full-timers. It is your job, and in the Lord's strength you can do it. Why
Rico Tice
#25. Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
Joe Abercrombie
#26. not hard-wired to individuate other people in numbers above two hundred, the size of the primal tribe,
Margaret Atwood
#28. Women are wired to take on others' needs. Own your role in stress, establishing boundaries on what you can reasonably accomplish within your current bandwidth and reduce your stress load.
Sara Gottfried
#29. I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.
Nick Nolte
#30. I guess
we're all just wired different. I just got to the point where I got tired of
people telling me what I can and can't do in my life.
Todd McFarlane
#31. In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
Helen Fisher
#33. I accepted that I was wired differently than most people, or, more precisely, that my wiring was toward one end of a spectrum of different human configurations. My innate logical skills were significantly greater than my interpersonal skills.
Graeme Simsion
#34. You Are Hard-Wired For The Kingdom Of Love, Peace And Unity
Sunday Adelaja
#35. I can't tell you how many people have asked me to show them Stray Cat Strut and that little diminished run on the C. I guess my brain is wired backwards. I don't know what possessed me to do that, but I did.
Brian Setzer
#36. Human beings are wired to be more reactive to threats than to rewards.
Abhishek Ratna
#37. My main thing is I'm gonna go out there every night and give it all I got and just try to put on the best show I can. That's just the way I'm programmed and wired.
Luke Bryan
#38. I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.
Chuck Lorre
#39. I love lists. Always have. when I was 14, I wrote down every dirty word I knew on file cards and placed them in alphabetical order. I have a thing about about collections, and a list is a collection with purchase. (Wired Magazine, "Step One: Make a List", October 2012)
Adam Savage
#40. Do you think that we're wired this way? With the devil inside?" "Yeah, in the same way we're wired for God. But not to the same extent.
Anne Lamott
#41. Good or bad, we need change. Need the different. Our brains aren't wired for the same-old.
Vanessa Garden
#42. There are people who are wired to be skeptics and there are people who are wired to be optimists. And I can tell you, at least from the last 20 years, if you bet on the side of the optimists, generally you're right.
Marc Andreessen
#43. People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint for humanity is a very bad metaphor. If you think we're hard-wired and deterministic, there should indeed be a lot more genes.
Craig Venter
#44. I'm only going to hurt this girl. I hurt everyone I touch. It's the way I'm wired.
Melyssa Winchester
#45. We are women. We believe in love and goodness and the kindness of others above all things. We are hard-wired to blame ourselves for things that other people do, even the bad, evil ones. That's why we're so good at compassion. It's also why we're our own worst enemies sometimes.
Elle Casey
#46. Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
Peter Diamandis
#47. Some people have abusive, negative, controlling tendencies in their blood; they are wired for havoc, bickering and deception.
Bryant McGill
#48. I think I'm better wired for television. I love variety as far as a project. I'm easily bored and the schedule of a television show, it just keeps you going.
Brad Garrett
#49. Constellations of thought hard wired to the universal energies between us resonate as a familiar hum that gently vibrates to caress my soul.
Truth Devour
#50. People are hard-wired for tribal identity.
Bruce Pavitt
#51. By definition, saving - for anything - requires us to not get things now so that we can get bigger ones later. That's hard. Our brains are hard wired to prefer the here and now.
Jean Chatzky
#52. I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.
Marc Maron
#53. It's better to read first rate science fiction than second rate science
it's a lot more fun, and no more likely to be wrong, joked Lord Rees, Astronomer Royal and the former president of the Royal Society, at Wired 2013.
Martin J. Rees
#54. I suppose we're built with complete free will, and as much as we're capable of depravity, to the same degree we are wired for greatness. Everyone gets to choose, I think. And my challenge is to decide where I'll place the bulk of my attention. What I'll most believe in.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#55. To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
Fred Wilson
#56. Frankly, I love the fact that God has a plan for every tomorrow of my life on earth and beyond. Even though I can't figure it all out, he's got it wired. This reassures me that I'm loved and safe. God knows our course, and he knows us. He loves us. He provides. He plans ahead.
Women Of Faith
#57. Human beings are wired to care and give and it's probably our best route to happiness.
Dacher Keltner
#58. You make Gifford Industries sound like some sort of two-bit Mafia-owned New Jersey garbage-hauling company." I thought of a few rejoinders - I'm just wired that way - but I held my tongue.
Joseph Finder
#59. Alan Kay's famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual's brilliance. It's not as if innovators' heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
Gary Hamel
#60. Our brains are wired such that it's difficult to take action until we feel at least some level of this emotional state. In fact, performance peaks under the heightened activation that comes with moderate levels of stress. As long as the stress isn't prolonged, it's harmless.
Travis Bradberry
#61. It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
Nicholas Negroponte
#62. A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
Miguel Nicolelis
#63. We all came into this world wired to connect with all life.
Linda Bender
#64. People thought I was very pro-computer. I was on the cover of 'Wired' magazine. Then things began to change. In the early '80s, we met this technology and became smitten like young lovers. But today our attachment is unhealthy.
Sherry Turkle
#65. It remains a mystery why these three young men, veterans of the same training and the same crash, differed so radically in their perceptions of their plight. Maybe the difference was biological; some men may be wired for optimism, others for doubt. As a toddler, Louie had leapt from a train
Laura Hillenbrand
#66. I don't have an answer to that, and I don't even know if he's right about me. Am I wired like the Abnegation, or the Dauntless? Maybe the answer is neither. Maybe I am wired like the Divergent.
Veronica Roth
#67. I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
Ron Perlman
#68. High achievers, we imagine, were wired for greatness from birth. But then you have to wonder why, over time, natural talent seems to ignite in some people and dim in others.
Nancy Gibbs
#69. Our ability to connect with others is innate, wired into our nervous systems, and we need connection as much as we need physical nourishment.
Sharon Salzberg
#70. Anakin was sixteen years old. Impatience was wired into his being. Despite Anakin's strong Force connection, it would most likely take years before he developed true inner balance.
Obi-Wan, on the other hand, was supposed to have it already.
Jude Watson
#71. We made it back to the airport without getting mugged, stoned, shot at, pounced on, bombed, shelled, garroted, gassed, pitched into, caught in a cross fire, sniped at, blockaded, napalmed, or trip-wired. No one even hit us with a water balloon.
Daniel Quinn
#72. If epigenetic changes caused by trauma such as the Holocaust, or enslavement, can be passed through generations, as researchers have recently found, perhaps some of us are hard-wired to be afraid because our history has taught us that fear is a kind of armor.
Amy Brill
#73. Whoever I'm with, that's the person I'm with. That's the way I'm wired.
Tila Tequila
#74. Exploration is wired into our brains. If we can see the horizon, we want to know what's beyond.
Buzz Aldrin
#75. I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
Elvis Presley
#76. The cicadas, as if they were wired on the same circuit, suddenly filled the garden with a loud burst of celebration.
Peter Carey
#77. All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.
Jesse Eisenberg
#78. We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that it isn't, we start looking around for the real world.
Lev Grossman
#79. It seems to be hard wired into our pleasure centres to move to music.
George C. Marshall
#80. We like to think that we're independent thinkers, that we're unique individuals. The truth is, however, that the need to fit in and belong is wired into our brains and our biology.
Susan M. Weinschenk
#81. Each new generation of children grows up in the new environment its parents have created, and each generation of brains becomes wired in a different way. The human mind can change radically in just a few generations.
Alison Gopnik
#82. Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
E. O. Wilson
#83. I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
Mark Zuckerberg
#84. I co-founded 'bOING bOING' magazine and the 'Boing Boing Blog' and was an editor at 'Wired' from 1993-1998.
Mark Frauenfelder
#85. I hate that our brains are wired that way. You don't remember the people that raved about us or just said something nice - I don't know why that's not in us to focus on *that*. But I think it takes a conscious effort to train our minds to change that.
Khloe Kardashian
#86. Dead girl walking" the boys say in the halls.
"Tell us your secrets" the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
"I am that girl. I am the spaces between my thighs, daylight shinning through. I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#87. (I'm a child of the wired generation, unlike some of the suits hereabouts who have their secretaries print everything out and dictate their replies for an audio-typist to send.)
Charles Stross
#88. People aren't broken. They're just interestingly wired.
Silvia Hartmann
#89. We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
Steven Soderbergh
#90. The kids today have these fresh faces. It's like they're on pins and needles, waiting to see what I'm going to do. They've never seen me. In the 1960s, those were hippies. They were wired up already. The kids today know me because I've worked with Jeff Tweedy and other young producers.
Mavis Staples
#92. I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.
Trent Reznor
#93. I left 'Wired' before it was sold to Conde Nast and Lycos, so I didn't experience that transition.
John Battelle
#94. A Wired reader told me once, Get a life, which I read from the back of a yacht in the Aegean, while eating fresh sea urchins and drinking terrific Montrachet.
Nicholas Negroponte
#95. Savasana - corpse pose - is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.
Jennifer Weiner
#96. Women were excited after sex, wired becasue in their minds the relationship was on beginning. Men went to sleep m the because for the orgasm had arrived and the relationship was done.
Eric Jerome Dickey
#97. They were all down there trying to wire the shackle. Each one of them alone, clinging to the stem of a mushroom anchor with one breath inside. One breath. It didn't matter if you got the shackle wired or not. There was no up. When your breath was done, no up."
John Casey, Spartina
John Casey
#98. Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.
Helen Fisher
#99. Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.
Charles Hugh Smith
#100. I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
Simon Schama
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