"I think I'm smart, and I know I was a good mom. But there wasn't a lot I could point to and say, that's why I'm special."

-- Charles Duhigg

#Mom Quotes #Smart Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“What if we found ourselves building something that nobody wanted? In that case what did it matter if we did it on time and on budget?”
“[S]uppose you make a hole in an ordinary evacuated electric light bulb and allow the air molecules to pass in at the rate of 1,000,000 a second, the bulb will become full of air in approximately 100,000,000 years.”
“I have discovered that there is a crucial difference between society's image of old people and 'us' as we know and feel ourselves to be.”
“People write because it seems like it'll be an easier job than carpet laying, that they might meet more girls. And they write because the world strikes them as being a marvelous place, and they want to keep bringing that to everybody's attention. You know ~ a scary place, a menacing place, an exciting place because it's scary and menacing. But mainly, kind of glorious.”
“Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.”
“Chess will always be the master of us all.”
“Evolution has no moral direction. An evolutionary understanding of human nature can explain the differing intuitions we have when we are faced with an individual rather than with a mass of people, or with people close to us rather than with those far away, but it does not justify those feelings.”
“Your decision to walk creates the path ahead”

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