“Nothing is more common than energy in money-making, quite independent of any higher object than its accumulation. A man who devotes himself to this pursuit, body and soul, can scarcely fail to become rich. Very little brains will do; spend less than you earn; add guinea to guinea; scrape and save; and the pile of gold will gradually rise.” MenLittlesSoulBodyEnergyCommonBrainRichFailingObjectsHigherGoldIndependentAddPursuitMaking MoneyAccumulationGuineaBecome Rich Book:Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance Source: Self-help: With Illustrations of Charakter, Conduct and Perseverance
“The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest.” SelfPhilosophyInterestBrainFailingStemAltruismImperativesSelf InterestBrutes Book:Blindsight Source: Blindsight
“Global warming is a deadly threat precisely because it fails to trip the brain's alarm, leaving us soundly asleep in a burning bed.” BrainFailingBedThreatLeavingClimate ChangeBurningGlobal WarmingAlarms Author:Daniel Gilbert
“The night comes for the purpose of checking our busy employment, and introducing an interval of repose between the links of our action and our aspiration. It draws its dim curtain around the field of toil. It buries the objects of our handiwork in darkness, and involves them with uncertainty. It comes to the relief of the exhausted body and the tired brain. Our powers, harmonizing with the diurnal revolutions of the earth, fail with the failing light, and a merciful Providence casts around us this mantle of shadow, and snatches us from our occupation.” BodyLightActionEarthPurposeNightBrainDarknessFailingFieldsObjectsRevolutionDrawsShadowTiredBusyCastsEmploymentUncertaintyAspirationReliefOccupationLinksIntroducingProvidenceExhaustedToilCurtainsOur ActionsMercifulReposeIntervalsHandiwork Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“The analogy between the mind and a computer fails for many reasons. The brain is constructed by principles that assure diversity and degeneracy. Unlike a computer, it has no replicative memory. It is historical and value driven. It forms categories by internal criteria and by constraints acting at many scales, not by means of a syntactically constructed program. The world with which the brain interacts is not unequivocally made up of classical categories.” WorldMindMeanMadeReasonFormValuesMemoriesActingBrainPrinciplesFailingDiversityComputerProgramHistoricalDrivenScalesInternalsCategoriesCriteriaConstraintsAnalogies Author:Gerald Edelman
“All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories, emotions and that ultimate souvenir, the self.” ImportantSelfMemoriesEmotionBrainFailingShapesUltimateIntimateDelicateCircuitsSouvenirs Author:Diane Ackerman
“Addiction is a brain disease. This is not a moral failing. This is not about bad people who are choosing to continue to use drugs because they lack willpower.” PeopleUseBrainMoralFailingDrugDiseaseAddictionWillpowerBad People Author:Michael Botticelli