We are our choices. – Jean-Paul Sartre I once had a professor in undergrad begin a new class by saying, “So you know, I’m rather opinionated. But I make up for it by always being right.” Although my dad has never explicitly said such a thing, I’m sure he would find it rather agreeable. In…
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…
Believe that your life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. – William James (the father of American psychology) For all my West Coast readers, let me say: the cold and snow ain’t fun. Recently, I went to hop in my car and pick up some groceries, when I unlocked my…
From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts. — Tom Stoppard Which is more common: words that begin with the letter ‘k’ or words whose third letter is ‘k’? Go ahead and take a moment to consider this. I’ve got nowhere to be. Well, in case you’re not up…
Only that traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better. – Henry David Thoreau There really is nothing like returning to your childhood home. Or in my case, returning to the place I lived last year as a semi-grown adult. And after spending the last…
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. — H. L. Mencken What if the fate of the United States’ geopolitical interactions could be determined by the weight of a dead ox? All right. You’ve think I’ve lost it. The pressures of grad school, the excess of coffee, the lack of sunlight…