#cho

People can learn to be more optimistic by acting as if they were more optimistic. ↗

— Suzanne C. Segerstrom

#psychology #attitude

Was there ever in anyone's life span a point free in time, devoid of memory, a night when choice was any more than the sum of all the choices gone before? ↗

— Joan Didion

#anyone #before #choice #choices #devoid

Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read An American Tragedy all in one weekend and couldn't put it down - I locked myself in my room. Now that was antithetical to every other book I was reading at the time because Dreiser really had no style, but it was powerful. ↗

— Joan Didion

#another #antithetical #because #book #down

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#asked #back #choice #first #grade

I thought cryptography was a technique that did not require your trusting other people-that if you encrypted your files, you would have the control to make the choice as to whether you would surrender your files. ↗

— Whitfield Diffie

#control #cryptography #did #files #i

Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#block #chopping #nothing #past #through

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home. ↗

— Phyllis Diller

#be nice #because #children #choose #home

As a matter of fact, even when I finished law school, I had no notion of public service then. ↗

— David Dinkins

#fact #finished #had #i #law

If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#amount #anything #chaotic #choices #days

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#high #high school #i #i do #jockey