Famous Quotes & Sayings

A funny thing to do is, if you're out hiking and your friend gets bitten by a poisonous snake, tell him you're going to go for help, then go about ten feet and pretend that *you* got bit by a snake. Then start an argument with him about who's going to go get help. A lot of guys will start crying. That's why it makes you feel good when you tell them it was just a joke.

Barack Obama

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Daniel Dennett

We live in a world that is subjectively open. And we are designed by evolution to be "informavores", epistemically hungry seekers of information, in an endless quest to improve our purchase on the world, the better to make decisions about our subjectively open future.

David Perlmutter

In general, the public knowledge base and thus decision-making behaviors are far more influenced by advertisement than with current science.

David Hawkins

Every thought, action, decision, or feeling creates an eddy in the interlocking, inter-balancing energy fields of life. In this interconnected universe, every improvement we make in our private world improves the world at large for everyone.

Dan Brown

Life is filled with difficult decisions, and winners are those who make them.

Andrew Lansley

No decision about me without me.

Andrea Arnold

Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.

Ambrose Bierce

To seek a justification for a decision already made.

Anthony Hopkins

I never make conscious decisions.

Alice Walker

In every life there comes a point when you have to make a decision about how you will live.

Elton John

I'll even pay sometimes for a woman that's ugly.