"I gather that the dopaminergic system in the reward centres of the brain respond even more vigorously to the expectation of reward than to reward itself. Hence, perhaps, the disappointment."

-- Semir Zeki

#Disappointment Quotes #Expectations Quotes #Brain Quotes

“Pose? I don't pose. What am I? Paris Hilton or something?”
“Bugsy Siegel. The mobster with the beautiful blue eyes.”
“The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.”
“Souderton was a good town to grow up in. Everybody knew each other.”
“It is unjust, and sometimes very untrue, though it is a common theory, to hold that it is sacrifices which make the beauty of a combination, and that the combination is prettier by the magnitude of the sacrifices.”

Source : Eugene Znosko-Borovsky (2013). “The Art of Chess Combination”, p.15, Courier Corporation
“I've seen the Mass For The End Of Time in concert but my brother's the more musical one really.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To treat a person like a carpet, it is necessary that one do the walking, and one allow himself to be walked on. --Shin'a'in saying”
“I'm certainly really rather tall at 6 foot 3, and I've been this way since I was 14, but for years, women who are even 5 foot 10 have come up to me in the street and said, 'Oh, it's so nice to see a woman who is taller than me. I've always felt like a giant.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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