Quotes of: John-lennon Keyword

...not all encounters with the world affect the mind equally. Studies have demonstrated that if the brain appraises an event as "meaningful," it will be more likely to be recalled in the future.

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

There are indeed moral universals — the Hebrew Bible calls them ‘the covenant with Noah’ and they form the basis of modern codes of human rights. But they exist to create space for cultural and religious difference…

The Dignity of Difference: How to Avoid the Clash of Civilizations

The saddest people I've ever met in life are the ones who don't care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there's nothing to make it last.

Dear John

Believe me, I'm no romantic, and while I've heard all about love at first sight, I've never believed in it, and I still don't. But even so, there was something there, something recognizably real, and I couldn't look away.

Dear John

Sandar came to stand beside him, frowning down at the crumpled High Lord. "He does not look so mighty lying there," he said wonderingly. "He does not look so much greater than me.

The Dragon Reborn

I dream therefore I am." - Marge to her young son Mikee

Dog Water Free, A Memoir: A coming-of-age story about an improbable journey to find emotional truth

the hope is that laying out what we understand about essential differences in the minds of men and women may lead to grater acceptance and respect of difference.

The Essential Difference: Male And Female Brains And The Truth About Autism

Our goals can only be achieved with a society that respects and equally protects the rights of every human being, old and young, rich and poor, regardless of gender, color, race, or creed. We must reject the initiation of violence by individuals or g...

End the Fed

The man of action has the present, but the thinker controls the future.

The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

I knew of no instruction manual for reaching a higher level of humanity and a greater wisdom. But I felt intuitively that laughter was the beginning of wisdom, as is was indispensable for survival.

Even Silence Has an End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle

Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the ...

Economics Peace and Laughter

I have got akwanted with Lofty John. Ilse is a great friend of his and often goes there to watch him working in his carpenter shop. He says he has made enough ladders to get to heaven without the priest but that is just his joke.

Emily of New Moon

If it was the warmth of the sun, and not its light, that produced this operation, it would follow, that, by warming the water near the fire about as much as it would have been in the sun, this very air would be produced; but this is far from being th...

Experiments upon vegetables

Underneath his sweetness and gentleness was the heat of a volcano. [Michael Faraday] was a man of excitable and fiery nature; but through high self-discipline he had converted the fire into a central glow and motive power of life, instead of permitti...

Faraday as a Discoverer

...every time you make a rule you take away a choice and choice, with all of its illuminating repercussions, is the fuel for learning.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Managers are encouraged to focus on complex initiatives like reengineering or learning organizations, without spending time on the basics.

First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently

Orange strengthens your emotional body, encouraging a general feeling of joy, well-being, and cheerfulness. Orange vibration foods are: oranges, tangerines, apricots, mangoes, peaches and carrots.

The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy

Green strongly influences the heart and helps alleviate tension. Positive qualities associated with green are generosity, humility, and cooperation. Foods of the green vibration are all green fruits and green vegetables.

The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy

White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

The First Element: Secrets to Maximizing Your Energy