Maria

Add friend

Maria’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (1074)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (142)

did-not-finish‎ (0)

Stats | More…

“Humans are so innately hardwired for language that they can no more suppress their ability to learn and use language than they can suppress the instinct to pull a hand back from a hot surface.”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

tags: communication, instinct, language

15 likes

“man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.)”
― Steven Pinker, The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language

3 likes

“Eyes often have an implicit censorious power.22 Post a large picture of a pair of eyes at a bus stop (versus a picture of flowers), and people become more likely to clean up litter. Post a picture of eyes in a workplace coffee room, and the money paid on the honor system triples. Show a pair of eyes on a computer screen and people become more generous in online economic games.”
― Robert M. Sapolsky, Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

7 likes

“Peggy, just think about it. Deeply. Then forget it. And an idea will jump up in your face.”
― Don Draper

tags: mad-men, madmen

4 likes

“You have to begin to lose your memory, if only in bits and pieces, to realise that memory is what makes our lives. Life without memory is no life at all . . . Our memory is our coherence, our reason, our feeling, even our action. Without it, we are nothing . . . (I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life, as it did my mother’s . . .) —Luis Buñuel”
― Oliver Sacks, The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat: And Other Clinical Tales

9 likes

More of Maria’s quotes…