Joseph E. LeDoux famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • A tale is told of a man in Paris during the upheaval in 1948, who saw a friend marching after a crowd toward the barricades. Warning him that these could not be held against the troops, that he had better keep way, he received this reply, " I must follow them. I am their leader."

  • Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.

  • Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

  • In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.

  • I don't show just anyone how to crust a sea bass. That's sacred information.

  • Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.

  • Behavior shapes emotions.

  • So pretty much, to sum it up, if you can freak someone out and bring that kind of emotion out of somebody with a song, you're doing something right.

  • My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.

  • Color is very much about atmosphere and emotion and the feel of a place.