Ash Chapman
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“Dopamine is not programmed to release a feeling of fulfilment even if you’ve achieved what you sought and craved: so you are never satisfied. This means I continue to google, twenty minutes after I’ve found what I was initially searching for.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“Where fear is ever present you will never tire of pleasure in the relationship. It sounds brutal, but Stendhal is right. Life is brutal. I am living dangerously when I take a relationship for granted. Most people think climbing Everest is very risky, but things usually work out. However, taking reciprocal love for granted – I would never dare do that.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“He watched her in the aisles: Molly, his pretty baseball wife, with her ceaseless vigilance for lumps, her insistence on quarterly medical check-ups for him and Willy, her controlled fear of the dark; her hard-bought knowledge that time is luck. She knew the value of their days. She could hold a moment by its stem. She had taught him to relish.”
― Red Dragon
― Red Dragon
“A normal work day at best contains eight hours of meetings, a few hours to respond to emails. It all blurs together. The only time to shut out the world is when I exercise, surf, take a shower or sit on the toilet. That’s when new solutions surface.”
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
― Silence: In the Age of Noise
“First, accept that life is hard, and that transforming our life—or our abilities, which amount to much the same thing—is very hard.”
― The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training For Climbers
― The Rock Warrior's Way: Mental Training For Climbers
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