Imagine an office like the one parodied on the popular show, “The Office.” There’s a new boss, sitting in a nicely furnished office behind a closed door. Guarding that door is a crafty old secretary [...]
“[Research] suggests that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act – and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment – are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.”
— Malcolm Gladwell
“I was addicted to ownership of the MacBook and the delusion of power it gave me. With feelings of ownership, of being one of the Apple elite, came a huge dose of dopamine.”
“Hugging is all natural. It is organic, naturally sweet, no pesticides, no preservatives, no artificial ingredients and 100 percent wholesome.”
- Paul Planet
“A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.”
- Thomas Carlyle
“Monkeys are superior to men in this: When a monkey looks into a mirror, he sees a monkey.”
- Malcolm de Chazal
“Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.”
- Buddha
“When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.” – Mark Twain