David > David's Quotes

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
― Fred Rogers

“My friends tell me that I have a tendency to point out problems without offering solutions, but they never tell me what I should do about it.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Our brain accepts what the eyes see and our eye looks for whatever our brain wants.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“If you are like most people, then like most people, you don't know you're like most people.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Impact is rewarding. Mattering makes us happy.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“Whatever you are thinking, your thoughts are surely about something other than the word with which this sentence will end. But even as you hear these very words echoing in your very head, and think whatever thoughts they inspire, your brain is using the word it is reading right now and the words it read just before to make a reasonable guess about the identity of the word it will read next, which is what allows you to read so fluently.4 Any brain that has been raised on a steady diet of film noir and cheap detective novels fully expects the word night to follow the phrase It was a dark and stormy, and thus when it does encounter the word night, it is especially well prepared to digest it. As long as your brain’s guess about the next word turns out to be right, you cruise along happily, left to right, left to right, turning black squiggles into ideas, scenes, characters, and concepts, blissfully unaware that your nexting brain is predicting the future of the sentence at a fantastic rate. It is only when your brain predicts badly that you suddenly feel avocado.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“The reality of the moment is so palpable and powerful that it holds imagination in a tight orbit from which it never fully escapes.”
― Daniel Gilbert, Stumbling on Happiness

“There isn't anything to worry about between science and religion, because the contradictions are just in your own mind. Of course they are there, but they are not in the Lord's mind because He made the whole thing, so there is a way, if we are smart enough, to understand them so that we will not have any contradictions.”
― Henry Eyring

“The gospel is not the people in the Church. The gospel is not even the people who direct it. The gospel is the truth.”
― Henry J. Eyring, Reflections of a Scientist

“If you do a job well, the very best you can, the opportunities will open up. I never had any very definite goals other than to do whatever job I was doing to the best of my ability. I've always had the feeling that if I did that well, I would somehow muddle through... Do the best you can with what you have about you. The future will take care of itself.”
― Henry J. Eyring