Quotes of: Maria Keyword

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

What would it be like if I could accept life--accept this moment--exactly as it is?

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

They stared into the distance as though they were being absorbed into an alternate space-time reality. Perhaps they were. But probably they already had been.

The Virgin of Hopeless Causes

empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes soluble.

Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playi...

Jimmy Connors

To be free, to come to terms with our lives, we have to have a direct experience of ourselves as we really are, warts and all.

The Trauma of Everyday Life

But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.

Finding Flow: The Psychology Of Engagement With Everyday Life

We're walking contradictions, seeking safety and predictability on one hand and thriving on diversity on the other.

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic + the Domestic

The newborn has only three demands. They are warmth in the arms of its mother, food from her breasts, and security in the knowledge of her presence. Breatfeeding satisfies all three.

Grantly Dick-Read

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

Miguel Nicolelis

The brain needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

Miguel Nicolelis

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

We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals produced by neurons simultaneously.

Miguel Nicolelis

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'

Philip Zimbardo

Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.

Philip Zimbardo

My favorite shot is always gonna be the forehand. It used to always be my favorite shot when I was young, so it's the one I've won all the points with.

Roger Federer

I am extremely proud and honoured to have beaten Pete's record as he was my childhood hero and I have always looked up to him.

Roger Federer

From the very commencement the student should set out to witness the progress and effects of sickness and ought to persevere in the daily observation of disease during the whole period of his studies.

Robert James Graves

Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse.

Robert D. Hare

Many psychopaths describe the traditional treatment programmes as finishing schools where they hone their skills. Where they find out that there are lots of techniques they had not thought about before.

Robert D. Hare

In the dream state, the only essential difference from waking is the relative absence of sensory input, which makes dreaming a special case of perception without sensory input.

Stephen LaBerge