"One of the main jobs of conciousness is to keep our life tied together into a coherent story, a self-concept. It does this by generating explanations of behaviors on the basis of our self image, images, memories of the past, expectations of the future, the present social situation, and the physical environment in which behavior is produced."

-- Joseph E. LeDoux

#Jobs Quotes #Memories Quotes #Past Quotes

“I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.”

Source : "Talk Asia" with Stan Grant, www.cnn.com. July 2, 2005.
“We moralize among ruins.”
“Sometimes, when my wife and I were going out to dinner, I would take my laptop with me and work in the car, so as to take advantage of the half hour going and coming.”
“The majority of human conflict comes from people just feeling disrespected.”

Source : Paul K. Chappell (2013). “The Art of Waging Peace: A Strategic Approach to Improving Our Lives and the World”, p.48, Easton Studio Press LLC
“Had he learned nothing from all those years of teaching Hawthorne? Through story after story he'd led his boys to consider the folly of obsession with purity - its roots sunk deep in pride, flowering condemnation and violence against others and self.”
“Thinking is the great enemy of perfection. The habit of profound reflection, I am compelled to say, is the most pernicious of all the habits formed by civilized man.”
“Twin threads ran through her: fear and excitement.”
“I'm just a down-to-earth guy.”

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