#th

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

You know I hate, detest, and can't bear a lie, not because I am straighter than the rest of us, but simply because it appals me. There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies -which is exactly what I hate and detest in the world -what I want to forget. It makes me miserable and sick, like biting something rotten would do. Temperament, I suppose. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#lies #temperament #death

Blood was the mortar that cemented the kingdom ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#death #empires #sacrifice #death

I have just got a new theory of eternity. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#got #i #just #new #new theory

One does not meet oneself until one catches the reflection from an eye other than human. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

#does #eye #human #meet #oneself

And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#cameras #debating #facebook #get #hands

If you bore them to death and say, this hurts me more than it hurts you, #A, they're not going to believe it, and #B, they're going to invest their time in other things anyway. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#believe #bore #death #going #hurts

Plans are nothing; planning is everything. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#nothing #planning #plans

If men can develop weapons that are so terrifying as to make the thought of global war include almost a sentence for suicide, you would think that man's intelligence and his comprehension... would include also his ability to find a peaceful solution. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#almost #also #comprehension #develop #find

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#art #because #getting #motivation #people