Bevans

“Buy Experiences Not Goods. Want to buy happiness? Then spend your hard-earned cash on experiences. Go out for a meal. Go to a concert, cinema or theatre. Go on holiday. Go and learn how to pole dance. Go paintballing. Go bungee jumping. In fact, get involved in anything that provides an opportunity to do things with others, and then tell even more people about it afterwards. When it comes to happiness, remember that it is experiences that represent really good value for money.”
― Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

“I am sometimes asked, "How do you know there won't be a war tomorrow (or a genocide, or an act of terrorism) that will refute your whole thesis?" The question misses the point of this book. The point is not that we have entered an Age of Aquarius in which every last earthling has been pacified forever. It is that substantial reductions in violence have taken place, and it is important to understand them. Declines in violence are caused by political, economic, and ideological conditions that take hold in particular cultures at particular times. If the conditions reverse, violence could go right back up.”
― Steven Pinker, The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

“Visualize Yourself Doing, Not Achieving.”
― Richard Wiseman, 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot

“the brain registers what is really out there in the world, makes a decision about what should be out there, and then generates its own brain activity as if what it has decided should be out there really is.”
― Bruce M. Hood, The Science of Superstition