Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot–about the world we live in, and about our own past.
A wonderful gift may not be wrapped as you expect.
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Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When someone sees the same people every day, as had happened with him at the seminary, they wind up becoming a part of that person's life. And then they want the person to change. If someone isn't what others want them to be, the others...
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Paulo Coelho
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep my expectations.
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Bill Watterson
The fruit of empty hopes is more bitter than the saddest truth.
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Angel Wagenstein
Yes, sex is troublesome and beautiful. And only when we drop our expectations, and know that we'll have moments of great sex and moments when our sexuality confounds, pains, or infuriates us, will we be liberated to enjoy it in a way that's true to...
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Alexandra Katehakis
More Quotes By Brian Christian
I think the reason novels are regarded to have so much more 'information' than films is that they outsource the scenic design and cinematography to the reader.. This, for me, is a powerful argument for the value and potency of literature specifically. Movies don't demand...
What a familiarity with the construction of Turing test bots had begun to show me was that we fail - again and again- to actually be human with other humans, so maddeningly much of the time.
Like most conversations and most chess games, we all start off the same and we all end the same, with a brief moment of difference in between. Fertilization to fertilizer. Ashes to ashes. And we spark across the gap.
When I fight off a disease bent on my cellular destruction, when I marvelously distribute energy and collect waste with astonishing alacrity even in my most seemingly fatigued moments, when I slip on ice and gyrate crazily but do not fall, when I unconsciously counter-steer...
Our judgments betray our expectations, and our expectations betray our experience. What we project about the future reveals a lot–about the world we live in, and about our own past.
