Allan Pease famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

We are different because our brain is wired differently. This causes us to perceive the world in different ways and have different values and priorities. Not better or worse - different.
-- Allan Pease

#Priorities #Brain #Different
Smoking is similar to hitting yourself over the head with a hammer because, when you stop, you feel better
-- Allan Pease

#Feel Better #Smoking #Hammers
A real man would never cry in public unless he was watching a movie in which a heroic dog died to save its master.Or if Heidi klum unbuttoned her blouse. Or he accidently dropped a full case of beer.
-- Allan Pease

#Dog #Real #Beer
A three-year old was examining his testicles while taking a bath. 'Mom,' he asked,'are these my brains?' 'Not yet.' she replied.
-- Allan Pease

#Mom #Years #Brain
Brain surgeons earn 10 times that of a general practitioner... it pays to be an expert.
-- Allan Pease

#Brain #Experts #Pay
The simplest way to customize is to phone members of the audience in advance and ask them what they expect from your session and why they expect it. Then use their quotes throughout your presentation.
-- Allan Pease

#Phones #Way #Use
Marriages are more likely to fail when one partner not only does not mirror the other's expressions of happiness, but instead shows expressions of contempt.
-- Allan Pease

#Mirrors #Expression #Doe
To ensure marital bliss, a man needs to be 1.09 times taller than his partner.
-- Allan Pease

#Men #Needs #Bliss
We prefer to find mates who are roughly as attractive as we are, which means they are more likely to stay and not look for a better offer.
-- Allan Pease

#Mean #Looks #Attractive

I would like to mention that I have flown the 262 first in May â€˜43. At this time, the aircraft was completely secret. I first knew of the existence of this aircraft only early in â€˜42 - even in my position. This aircraft didnâ€™t have any priority in design or production.
It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings in the darkness which religions have explored. This is a particular priority for secular Americans, perhaps the most anxious and disappointed people on earth, for their nation infuses them with the most extreme hopes about what they may be able to achieve in their working lives and relationships.
plagiarism, n. A literary coincidence compounded of a discreditable priority and an honorable subsequence.
To be a textual critic requires aptitude for thinking and willingness to think; and though it also requires other things, those things are supplements and cannot be substitutes. Knowledge is good, method is good, but one thing beyond all others is necessary; and that is to have a head, not a pumpkin, on your shoulders and brains, not pudding, in your head.
The best brains of the nation may be found on the last benches of the classroom.
I'm always going to be making costumes. It's one of the ways I relax my brain. In addition to the pleasure of having the piece, there is a deep and abiding pleasure for me assembling something in my head - learning to know something in its totality in my head, and then putting together all the constituent parts into a cohesive whole.
Everybody kind of understands, Oh yeah you take drugs and it does something to your brain and then you can't stop. It's easier to describe that shame, that horrible feeling of not being able to control your own life.
Chris [Nolan] comes at this with such a different take on Batman, so I didn't feel that I had to be true to any other actor playing this role. Of course, I read the comic books. His relationships with Lt. Gordon and with Batman, with Gotham City, those really helped me the most.
In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes. I've had to do it before with stage roles, to get roles. I'm drawn to kind of darker, misfit things. I would like to, especially in film, play against type and do some heavier stuff. I'm intrigued by projects that deal with problematic people and things.
The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

Allan Pease famous quotes

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