"Sociopathy is the inability to process emotional experience, including love and caring, except when such experience can be calculated as a coldly intellectual task."

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Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.126, Harmony

Martha Stout

#Caring Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Intellectual Quotes

“The reason nobody else in my business has any impact is because they're all comatose.”
“Lesson number one: opportunity can be manufactured. Yes, you can wait around for the right set of circumstances to fall into place and then leap into action but you can also create those set of circumstances on your own. In so doing, you manufacture your own opportunities. This has helped me immeasurably.”
“Well, the clothes are really cool that we wear. The sets are so funny, because it's like everything is so real.”
“NHPrimary Trivia: The Republican candidates have not spoken to a black person since Herman Cain dropped out.”
“Some pitchers want to be known as the fastest throwers that ever lived. Some want to win 30 games in one season. Some want to pitch a no-hitter. All I want to do is the best I can, day after day. In other words, I want to prove I am the best.”
“It seems like yesterday I was up there watching my first NHL game, and I was skating on the ice this time. It brings back memories, but at the same time it's something I'll remember forever.”
“The band's never taken a year off. Last August we decided to take one, and three months in I was bored to tears.”
“I have lots of fiction in the drawer, but the essays I mostly kick out into the world, ready or not. Fiction incubates differently, I suppose.”

Source : "Loitering: A Conversation with Essayist and Author Charles D'Ambrosio". Interview With Chris Schluep, www.amazonbookreview.com. February 3, 2016.

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