Frano Jančić

“Eich and the other researchers devised a method to determine people’s mood simply by asking them a neutral question. The underlying assumption they relied upon was that people will react to a neutral question in a way that reflects how they feel. The answer isn’t important; it’s about whether people answer in a non-neutral way.”
― Patrick King, The Science of Likability: 27 Studies to Master Charisma, Attract Friends, Captivate People, and Take Advantage of Human Psychology

“Why compound the problem by focusing your energy on things that are beyond your immediate control?”
― Terry Orlick, In Pursuit of Excellence: How to Win in Sport and Life Through Mental Training

“The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.”
― Seneca