"Out of the 10,000 news stories you may have read in the last 12 months, did even one allow you to make a better decision about a serious matter in your life?"

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Source : "News is bad for you - and giving up reading it will make you happier" by Rolf Dobelli, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2013.

Rolf Dobelli

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“A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.”

Source : "Interview: Clive Thompson's 'Smarter Than You Think'". Interview with Michael Agger, www.newyorker.com. October 29, 2013.
“I like sporks. They're like spoons, but you can poke people with them.”
“I would rather have a player who showed a bit of heart out there than one who just accepted things.”
“Part of the core of my system, is a way of trying to give the characters more control. If I'm practicing making up what the characters will do, it's never good. In fact, when I catch myself doing that, I try to get rid of that section, and try and let them start making the decisions.”
“I often say of my background: "That and a Metrocard will get me downtown." Honestly, I think the upshot of my training in acting and writing is that I've been trained to be adventurous. There are so many moments in conservatory where I was encouraged to push the envelope and color outside the lines. I think that sense of bravery flavors what I do. It allows me to take chances that I might not otherwise take.”
“I see for others... in order to put on canvas the sudden apparitions which come to me.”
“I'm lucky to have family around me. Otherwise, I'll be taking the risk of falling in love with myself.”
“In order to induce the process of decay, water is necessary. I think that, in the case of women, men are the water.”

Source : FaceBook post by Natsuo Kirino from Apr 20, 2012

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