Quotes of: Norman Keyword

I believe that architecture is fundamentally a public space where people can gather and communicate, think about the history, think about the lives of human beings, or the world.

Tadao Ando

...tethered to the ground by quotidian conversation. ... the window rosy with anemic November light.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals

Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

You´re not perceiving what's out there. You're perceiving whatever your brain tells you.

Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain

Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives

Our real self is under siege by our anti-self.

The Self Under Siege: A Therapeutic Model for Differentiation

One of the few blessings of living in an age of anxiety is that we are forced to become aware of ourselves.

Man's Search for Himself

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

Man's Search for Himself

Mindfulness has never met a cognition it didn't like.

The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

Obedience to Authority

Potential is not an endpoint but a capacity to grow and learn.

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Toward a Psychology of Being

All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

Psychopathia Sexualis: The Case Histories

Think and then think what you have thought. Is it really what you had thought. Think again.

Personality Development Through Positive Thinking

There is no meaningful "yes" unless the individual could also have said "no.

Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

What Is Life?

And, I think that is actually appropriate because I'm really not the world's best programmer, I think it's a good thing that I'm not touching the code.

Brian Behlendorf

For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Leroy Hood

I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.

Mo Ibrahim

I think the astronaut job is the best job in the world. I realized when I was older and started applying for it that it's a pretty cool job.

Michael J. Massimino