Dean Hamer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.
The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.
Iâ€™m not a fan of â€˜write what you know.â€™ If you donâ€™t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing â€˜The Year of Living Biblically.â€™ That was kind of the point â€“ to learn.
One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.

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