Steven Pinker Quotes

Cognitive psychology tells us that the unaided human mind is vulnerable to many fallacies and illusions because of its reliance on its memory for vivid anecdotes rather than systematic statistics.

Steven Pinker

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MemoryMindStatisticsHumanUs

It takes more drawing to tell a story in pantomime.

Jim Woodring

StoryDrawingMoreTellTakes

I don't think my judgment is that good. I don't know what is funny.

Jerry Stiller

FunnyGoodThinkKnowJudgment

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Rob Portman

GoodYouSecurityFixStartingEven

The belief that we can rely on shortcuts to happiness, joy, rapture, comfort, and ecstasy, rather than be entitled to these feelings by the exercise of personal strengths and virtues, leads to legions of people who, in the middle of great wealth, are starving spiritually.

Martin Seligman

HappinessGreatJoyPeopleExercise

Being a mother was too important to me to risk running out of time.

Monica Cruz

MotherTimeMeImportantRiskOut

I didn't do that many crazy things.

Miranda Lambert

CrazyThingsManyCrazy Things

Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

Joyce Meyer

ChangeGoodBecomeIntentionsNever

I think Halle Berry is one of the most beautiful women on the planet.

Brooke Burke

WomenBeautifulThinkPlanetMost

Adults spend $500 billion on games and leisure activity each year, and some adults lament that kids get $15 billion for toys.

Brian Sutton-Smith

YearGamesToysLeisureGetKids

We all know how we can be turned around by a magic place; that's why we travel, often. And yet we all know, too, that the change cannot be guaranteed. Travel is a fool's paradise, Emerson reminded us, if we think that we can find anything far off that we could not find at home.

Pico Iyer

ChangeHomeTravelFoolThinkMagic

I attended school regularly for three years. I learned to read and write. 'Lamb's Tales' from Shakespeare was my favourite reading matter. I stole, by finding, Palgrave's 'Golden Treasury.' These two books, and the 'Everyman' edition of John Keats, were my proudest and dearest possessions, my greatest wealth.

Peter Abrahams

SchoolReadingFindingWealthThree

All studio movies are the middle of the Bell curve. The only way to do something is to do it yourself. And the only way to do that is to not take any money from anyone or take as little money as possible from anyone and that's it.

Thomas Lennon

MoneyYourselfMoviesWayPossible

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