Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative. – Maurice Chevalier Have you ever wanted to live forever? Okay, maybe not that long, but have you ever wanted to grow old? Of course you do! That’s why you don’t smoke cigarettes (or at least feel a little guilty when you do). That’s why…
Eye contact is a dangerous, dangerous thing. But lovely. Oh, so lovely. – Hazel Hira Ozbek One of my favorite things about grad school? I can tell people that I literally study persuasion for a living. From writing chapters on persuasion to conducting my own research on the topic, there’s hardly a day I don’t think…
Great stories happen to those who can tell them. – Ira Glass Everybody loves a good story. And as an extension of that, people tend to love a good storyteller. Sometimes I wonder why my mom married my dad. Sure, he would eventually help produce some amazing offspring, but she couldn’t have known that then. However,…
There are two great days in a person’s life – the day we are born and the day we discover why. — William Barclay As you may know, today is internationally hailed as one of the most important days of the year: National Star Wars Day (i.e., because the date, May 4th, can be turned…
No good deed goes unpunished. — Clare Boothe Luce We like to believe that good things happen to good people and bad things happen to bad people. In movies, the good guys almost always win. In children’s books, misbehavior is almost always caught. And even though anecdotal experience provides countless counterexamples, we still cling to…
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. – Steven Wright The Greek myth of Pandora’s Box remains one of the most well-known tales of the ancient gods, in which, Pandora, given a box she’s told not to open, let’s her curiosity consume her, opening the box and releasing a host of…