"The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare."

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Source : Edward Thorndike (2017). “Animal Intelligence: Experimental Studies”, p.325, Routledge

Edward Thorndike

#Mean Quotes #May Quotes #Welfare Quotes

“Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.”
“Improv is more than just spitting out a bunch of funny stuff that's unrelated to the material. You have to stay in character, you have to react and respond as the character you're trying to play. You have to service the story, and I think improv training has helped with my listening, responding, and my audition technique. It's sounds so silly, but it's true. Because not only do you improvise during the audition, but once you get the part, they'll say, "Throw away everything. Just improv this scene. Do whatever you want." Someone could panic if they're not used to doing something like that.”

Source : "Wendi McLendon-Covey on Her New Sitcom and Her Career in Comedy". Interview with Phoebe Robinson, www.glamour.com. September 24, 2013.
“We are accused here of polygamy, and actions the most indelicate, obscene, and disgusting, such that none but a corrupt and depraved heart could have contrived. These things are too outrageous to admit to belief.”

Source : Orson Pratt, John Taylor, William Gibson (O.B.E.) (1851). “A Series of Pamphlets”
“Unless I have hallucinated, I have never made an anti-gay commentary, I have made anti-gay-activist-agenda commentaries.”
“In a way, everything concerning a movie leaves me cold.”
“Never buy gold, simply earn it”
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
“The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.”

Source : Peter Block (2009). “Community: The Structure of Belonging”, p.14, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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