Wired Differently Quotes

#1. We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.

Allan Pease

#2. People who grew up before the blogosphere, I just think that your brain is wired differently. I feel like in some ways my sensibility is aligned with people twenty years older than me than somebody six years younger. Because there was a sort of cutoff.

Meghan Daum

#3. I know I need him. And I hope he needs me. What we have is fucked up and twisted, but it serves a need. I know I've always been wired differently. He only brought to the surface what was already there.

Kitty Thomas

#4. [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

#5. 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

#6. Every woman is wired differently. Some women's nerves branch more in the vagina; other women's nerves branch more in the clitoris. Some branch a great deal in the perineum, or at the mouth of the cervix. That accounts for some of the differences in female sexual response.

Naomi Wolf

#7. Appreciation and respect are mutual needs. We may be wired differently as men and women, but some needs are parallel human needs.

Cathy Burnham Martin

#8. With the truth so dull and depressing, the only working alternative is wild bursts of madness and filigree.

Hunter S. Thompson

#9. We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do.

Elliott Colla

#10. Buying market share by hiring your competitors' salespeople does nothing good for your reputation in the industry. Maybe you don't care when you're young and brash, but eventually you learn that reputation is a crucial business asset, worth much more over the long run than a few extra sales.

Norm Brodsky

#11. The best bet you get is an even break.

Franklin P. Adams

#12. Buildings are deeply emotive structures which form our psyche. People think they're just things they maneuver through, but the makeup of a person is influenced by the nature of spaces.

David Adjaye

#13. To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.

Fred Wilson

#14. The one taken underwater of Mel's garden of women,

Rachel Caine

#15. The past influences everything and dictates nothing.

Adam Phillips

#16. J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

Bill Cowher

#17. 'America' is synonymous with opportunity.

Tina Brown

#18. Yet avarice is numbered among the sins, but stupidity omitted.

E. B. Farnum

#19. He's thinking about sex. I'm thinking about sex. We're all thinking about sex here.

Krista Ritchie

#20. That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

Diogenes Laertius

#21. NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

Greg Prato