#lia

In Europe and Australia, there is something called the Tall Poppy Syndrome: People like to cut the tall poppies. They don't want you to succeed, and they cut you down - especially people from your own social class. ↗

— Mark Burnett

#called #class #cut #down #especially

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#human #human behavior #incredibly #plastic #pliable

Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#aggression #came #discussions #experiments #first

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college. ↗

— Philip Zimbardo

#bronx #childhood #college #complete #early

Most people are fascinated to see someone play an instrument in an inspired way. We are moved by witnessing musical brilliance, and it was this notion that led me to purchase the GuitarTV domain 10 years ago. ↗

— Steve Vai

#brilliance #domain #fascinated #inspired #instrument

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing. ↗

— Sarah Zettel

#butler #course #disturbing

The way to kill a man or a nation is to cut off his dreams, the way the whites are taking care of the Indians: killing their dreams, their magic, their familiar spirits. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cut #dreams #familiar #his #indians

I could suddenly see the pressures all around; these endless magazines and cheap reality TV programmes poking at women, humiliating us for every flaw. It makes me so angry. I really wonder what it is we are doing to ourselves, because I do think women can be the worst ones for picking each other apart. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#apart #around #because #cheap #could

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#familiar territory #frees #giving #mind #needs

Second-generation Hispanics marry non-Hispanics at a higher rate than second-generation Irish or Italians. Second-generation Hispanics' English language capability rates are higher than previous immigrant groups'. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#english #english language #groups #higher #hispanics