Scanner Quotes

“The truth is that you aren’t lacking a destiny or purpose. There is a very good reason for your insatiable curiosity: you’re someone who’s going to shake things up, create something novel, solve complex, multidimensional problems, make people’s lives better in your own unique way. Whatever your destinies are, you can’t step into them while stifling your multipotentiality. You must embrace it and use it.”
― Emilie Wapnick, How to Be Everything

“And be grateful that you’re a Scanner. Not everyone can have this much fun with nothing but what’s between her ears.”
― Barbara Sher, Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your Dreams

“I am more concerned with putting a cellphone next to my head than I am with putting my head into an X-Ray radiation computerized tomography (CT) brain scanner.”
― Steven Magee

“At the age of 49, I had been in the X-Ray radiation computerized tomography (CT) scanner for two brain scans, one nasal scan, and four lung scans.”
― Steven Magee

“Good morning, Ms. Early,” she said as she closed them in together. “I’m Dr. Perez.”

She didn’t go to the computer and sign in. She came over and shook hands. And even as her dark eyes were making a sweep of Jo’s face, like she had one of Bones McCoy’s scanners implanted in her head, she wasn’t impersonal about it.

“Let’s talk about what’s going on. Matthew gave me some idea, but I’d like to hear everything again from you.”
― J.R. Ward, The Sinner

“I have been through a brain scanner three times and was told every time I have a good looking brain!”
― Steven Magee

“We all need a sense of meaning in our lives. The feeling that we're doing good in the world--that we're making a difference in some way--is essential.

Not everything we do needs to evoke a deep sense of meaning. That would be exhausting!

Multipotentialites are usually involved in a number of different projects. Some of these are naturally more meaningful than others (just as some are more profitable than others).

What matters isn't that everything we do is deeply meaningful, but that we have enough overall meaning to make us feel good about how we're spending our time on this earth.”
― Emilie Wapnick