Robert Sapolsky I think threat of change is pretty potent. In humans, blood pressure doesn’t go up when people get laid off: it goes up when they first hear rumors that layoffs are coming at the end of the month. – Robert Sapolsky Blood Quotes Change Quotes Coming Quotes Hear Quotes Humans Quotes Laid Quotes Layoffs Quotes Month Quotes People Quotes Potent Quotes Pressure Quotes Pretty Quotes Rumors Quotes Threat Quotes If you’re a gazelle, you don’t have a very complex emotional life, despite being a social species. But primates are just smart enough that they can think their bodies into working differently. It’s not until you get to primates that you get things that look like depression. My guess is that people with a stereotypically conservative exclusionary stance about immigration rarely have the sense that they feel disgusted that people elsewhere in the world would want to come to the United States for better lives. Instead, there is threat by the rabble, the unwashed masses, to the American way of life.
Anita BorgLeadership Leaders of the future will have to be visionary and be able to bring people in – real communicators. These are things that women bring to leadership and executive positions, and it’s going to be incredibly valuable and incredibly in demand. – Anita Borg
Alastair Reynolds There are similarities between historical novels and science fiction. Being thrown into the Napoleonic Wars is just as much of a different world as space. – Alastair Reynolds
John Prendergast Africans are on the front lines of humanitarian efforts, distributing life-saving aid in dangerous environments. Africans comprise the vast majority of peacekeepers in civil conflict on that continent. Africans for the most part lead peace negotiations for the wars being fought in Africa. – John Prendergast
Chris Claremont The one thing I have never been comfortable with in the modern presentation of character – and it may have changed, this is some years ago – is their total isolation from the rest of the world. It’s all about superheroes interacting with superheroes. There’s no normal life. No normal people. – Chris Claremont
Ruth Rendell I wouldn’t be young again even if it were possible, but I am not going to pretend that growing old is all sweetness and light. – Ruth Rendell
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