Frans de Waal Quotes

If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.

Frans de Waal

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: dutch
  • Birth: October 29, 1948

Topics

GoodFearYouOthersReasonMay

You forget that the fruits belong to all and that the land belongs to no one.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

YouForgetLandBelongFruits

Our primary goal in the consumer health service companies I back is helping them create an uncompromisingly great consumer experience.

John Sculley

HealthGreatServiceExperienceGoal

Hugh Grant will always be associated with his scandal, and so will Max Mosley.

Ruth Rendell

WillAlwaysScandalGrantMaxHis

In fact, it is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of its own reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

ExerciseResultReasonOwnCall

I was definitely a choir and theater geek.

Michelle Branch

ChoirGeekTheaterDefinitely

The first one I did was an action film with Sammo Hung and George Lam, but I had the usual female role for that time: you know, damsel in distress, rescued by the hero.

Michelle Yeoh

TimeHeroActionYouKnowFirst

Startups are often best at solving the personal problems of their founders. The more diverse the founders, the more types of problems can be solved - and the more people who will be positively impacted by technology.

Michael Seibel

TechnologyBestPeopleProblemsWill

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.

Louis C. K.

LaughCheapThing

Nobody ever asks me why my characters don't text each other. Besides, as soon as you put something 'electronic' in a book, it's already out of date by the time it's published: everything will have changed. Human emotion, on the other hand, will never change.

Judy Blume

ChangeTimeMeBookYouNobody

When I'm on stage, that's me. It's blown up, but that's me.

Denis Leary

MeStageUpBlown

I'm just a shade over 200 lbs., playing basketball with my son, running, hiking, swimming, and feeling way better than I did at 40. 50 doesn't feel so bad!

Dean Cain

SonSwimmingBasketballBetterFeel

The essays are very solipsistic and self-absorbed, I'm totally conscious of that. To me, book writing is fun, and I basically just write about things that are entertaining to myself.

Chuck Klosterman

MyselfFunMeWritingBookWrite

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