"Human minds yield helplessly to the suction of story. No matter how hard we concentrate, no matter how deep we dig in our heels, we just can't resist the gravity of alternate worlds."

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Source : Jonathan Gottschall (2012). “The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human”, p.3, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Jonathan Gottschall

#Yield Quotes #Mind Quotes #Stories Quotes

“Any sport that lasts six minutes, that's it, you can just imagine how intense it is, only six minutes long.If you try something, if you try a move, if you take a single leg takedown and it doesn't work, you don't give up. You don't give up; you will succeed. I think it's very parallel with the stuff that you have to do in the real world.”
“I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.”
“Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.”
“I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.”
“Never speak ill of yourself, your friends will always say enough on that subject.”
“I work out at Runyon Canyon almost every morning.”
“Since word is thrall, and thought is free, Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.”
“I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them. That's all the powers of the President amount to.”

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