Top 56 Zak Quotes
#1. Zak felt himself drawing inward like a snail, pulling back all his vulnerable parts, which was just about everything, and hiding inside his shell. Trouble was he didn't have a thick shell.
Barbara Elsborg
#2. 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
#3. I was recruited by the dead,' Zak said. 'Not in any rush to join them in their silence, but from the urgent need to understand what they might have thought and done that could survive them, that could speak across the ages, that could be continued even now.
Greg Egan
#5. 'How long do you want me to stay in there so you can talk about me behind my back?' Zak called.
'A couple of hours. I could write a book about you,' Logan shot back.
'Make sure you make it clear my dick's bigger than yours.'
Barbara Elsborg
#6. Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
Zak Orth
#7. As soon as they were spotted, one of the jerk's buddies pointed at me and said, "Arrest her! She's the one who killed Zak!"
Why I outta ... Wait Zak? I thought we all agreed he was Captain Asshole? Oh, no ... Guess that was just me.
Bella Shadow
#8. I might be new at this," Zak gasped. "But aren't you supposed to move?"
"Wait."
"How long? Do I have time to do a Sudoku?"
Logan growled. "Shut up.
Barbara Elsborg
#9. Okay, so I lied. He's nothing like Peter Parker. He's a bajillion times sexier than Peter Parker. Spiderman ain't got nothing on Zak Gibbons.
Cassie Mae
#10. Don't you watch any cop shows?" Logan asked. "You're supposed to wait until I've made sure there are no guys with submachine guns and machetes waiting in the shadows."
"Was that a joke?" Zak asked
Barbara Elsborg
#11. John had Julian and I had Zak so we'd try to do the fatherly things. We'd try to do manly things too; we'd go to the pub and bring Maureen and Cynthia a Babycham or something- a real Liverpool attitude
Ringo Starr
#12. Aaron: Dude, one thing the guy said is you don't taunt voodoo.
Zak: Am I taunting?
Aaron: Dude, you're taunting the crap out of it!
Zak: I am sorry, I am not taunting you I am just talking ... Talking loudly.
Zak Bagans
#13. A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes. - Gandhi
Zak Ebrahim
#14. No one's ever sat me down and taught me what empathy is or why it matters more than power or patriotism or religious faith. But I learn it right there in the hallway: I cannot do what's been done to me.
Zak Ebrahim
#15. It's much, much harder working on a show than it is working on a movie. It really is. Even if you're in production, that production lasts for a set period of time. A TV show goes on for months and months and months.
Zak Penn
#16. 'I don't have a type. I'll fuck almost anything. Almost anyone, I mean. I do have some standards.'
Barbara Elsborg
#17. The energies are what blows my mind. They drag everything out of you, and sometimes your own soul. You really have to mentally be stable, or else you'll lose it.
Zak Bagans
#18. Rich or poor, living in a trusting society simply makes people happier.
Paul J. Zak
#19. Oxytocin is love. Oxytocin is within you.
Paul J. Zak
#20. We humans are explorers and pioneers, and we find our inner strength when the end state is the absolute unknown.
Zak Bagans
#21. [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
#22. People try nonviolence for a week, and when it 'doesn't work,' they go back to violence, which hasn't worked for centuries.
Zak Ebrahim
#23. Playing with the Who is the biggest rush there is. At eleven years old I used to go to bed dreaming about what I'm doing now. I don't know how many people can say that.
Zak Starkey
#24. You need eight hugs a day. You'll be happier and the world will be a better place.
Paul J. Zak
#25. The amount of work that TV writers and executives do is incredibly hard. I'm shocked that these people will hand in three outlines and two scripts, and everybody has to read them and give notes on all of them, even the writers.
Zak Penn
#26. Ahmed is not a murderer like my father, but within the walls of our apartment - among people he claims to love - he is every inch a terrorist.
Zak Ebrahim
#27. Everyone has a choice. Even if you're trained to hate, you can choose tolerance. You can choose empathy.
Zak Ebrahim
#28. I think there is some credibility to the notion that marriage is an institution. It meant something very different hundreds of years ago when it became the norm for people to go off and pair.
Zak Orth
#30. If you don't think like a winner, you're not going to be a winner.
Zak Kustok
#31. In some ways, TV is more regimented, but there is a level of professionalism that's very high, among the people that work in television.
Zak Penn
#32. 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
#33. Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.
Zak Orth
#34. You appreciate the little details in life once you realize how fragile it isYou respect the afterlife when you realize how powerful it is.
Zak Bagans
#35. If you can stand your ground, I'll stay on my knees...
Zak D Cole
#36. Talking to spirits is how you free them. Listening to them is how you help them crossover.
Zak Bagans
#37. Like nature itself, modern economic life is driven by relentless competition and unbridled selfishness. Or is it?
Paul J. Zak
#38. When you are in the dark and you can't see anything, something is looking at you seeing everything
Zak Bagans
#39. The paranormal, you can't pick and choose. It's all or nothing.
Zak Bagans
#41. I don't deny that I get excited, but that's what happens when you're passionate about what you do.
Zak Bagans
#42. Make those important in your life smile today That smile is the most important thing you did today.
Zak Bagans
#43. One thing that is true in TV is that you do hire the directors. As the writer, it's very different than in features, where you feel like, "If I want this to be this way, I better direct it."
Zak Penn
#44. I put people before gods. I respect believers of all kinds and work to promote interfaith dialogue, but my whole life I've seen religion used as a weapon, and I'm putting all weapons down.
Zak Ebrahim
#45. My adventures are a constant struggle between fear and courage.
Zak Bagans
#46. 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
#47. 'I don't remember if I thanked you for saving me,' he said. 'So thank you.'
'You're welcome.'
'Though after this morning, I've added you to the list of those trying to kill me.'
Barbara Elsborg
#48. As far as writing or directing a film, I've worked with enough people who have done that that I know it's just a whole other level of responsibility and chaos and murder that I could not see happening. For now, I'm just going to see what comes. I know what I like and what direction I have.
Zak Orth
#49. I'm convinced that empathy is more powerful than hate and that our lives should be dedicated to making it go viral.
Zak Ebrahim
#50. I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.
Zak Orth
#51. Dear Mother Mary! His plaid sat low and hugged his hips, fitting him like a second skin.
Victoria Zak
#52. 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
#53. I discovered that what most people call creepy, scary, and spooky, I call comfy, cozy, and home.
Zak Bagans
#54. Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.
Paul J. Zak
#55. ...shame spreads through his body like a drop of red dye in water.
Zak Ebrahim
#56. The road is a lonely, exhausting, invigorating, and living thing, but the wonder of seeing things we never would have dreamed of makes it worth the price we pay to leave the safety of home
Zak Bagans
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