#uma

Every year I tell myself that I'm not going to read any reviews and then I do. We're all human and when I read something negative it hurts. I think when you write it's part of the game, you're going to get some good reviews and some bad reviews and that's how it goes. I don't write for the reviews. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#bad #every #game #get #goes

I had absolutely no trauma in my childhood. If anyone ever assumed that my books were autobiographical, they'd be sorely disappointed, because none of these things happened to me. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#anyone #assumed #autobiographical #because #books

It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges. ↗

— Abbe Pierre

#atrocities #crises #cultural #exchanges #humanity

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#able #behavior #change #human #human society

Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions. ↗

— Kenneth L. Pike

#change #could #functions #human #meanings

No one can find inner peace except by working, not in a self- centered way, but for the whole human family. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#except #family #find #human #human family

Humanity has only scratched the surface of its real potential. ↗

— Peace Pilgrim

#only #potential #real #scratched #surface

Evolutionary psychology is one of four sciences that are bringing human nature back into the picture. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#bringing #evolutionary #four #human #human nature

Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#artists #depends #human #human nature #many

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#arts #believe #confusion #elite #endeavor