If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. — Haruki Murakami At one point, you have probably had an older person warn you against being a “lemming;” that is, advise you from doing something just because everyone else was doing it (as the…
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can’t remember if it’s the thirteenth or the fourteenth. — George Burns It doesn’t really feel like autumn until November rolls around. And with Halloween now behind us, it’s time to turn off “Monster Mash” and put on “Deck the Halls.” (But…
It’s easy to play the hand after the cards have been dealt. – George Teeny Last Friday, I completed the first part of my candidacy exam. I had four measly hours to complete six grisly questions, and, overall, I think I did pretty well (except for the part where I accidentally jettisoned my energy drink all over…
Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right. – Phil McGraw Recently, my whole world changed. Well, not my whole world, but the part of it I spend the majority of my time in; namely, my bedroom. Now, I don’t want to say moving to a new apartment was the worst…
The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. — Nietzsche We have a serious tendency to overestimate how many people agree with us. Whether it is on behavioral choices, personal characteristics, or even preferences, like being a dog-person vs. a…
Our understanding is correlative to our perception. – Robert Delaunay This last week, I went from the sub-zero temperatures in Columbus, OH to shirtless strolling on the sands of Long Beach, CA for a social psychology conference. Oh, how glorious that golden sun doth be! But speaking of glorious, golden things we all hope to…