"...if you routinely practice relaxation, this will increase the activation of genes that calm down stress reactions, making you more resilient." -Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.
“If our cultures and histories define the totality of our interpretive enterprise, the price of admission can be complete acquiescence to that culture’s particularities.” - Esau McCaulley
“We talk of freedom and democracy, yet an increasing number of people are afraid of the responsibility of freedom, and prefer the slavery of the well-fed robot; they have no faith in democracy and are happy to leave it to the political experts to make the decisions.” -Erich Fromm
“The truth is that all dreams are a little crazy. That’s why they are called “dreams.” But we are never crazy for dreaming. What’s crazier than dreaming is never trying at all.” - The Proximity Principal by Ken Coleman
“The giant corporations which control the economic, and to a large degree the political, destiny of the country constitute the very opposite of the democratic process; they represent power without control by those submitted to it.” - On Disobedience by Erich Fromm
“Mulheren made it a point never to talk to investment bankers. He thought they were arrogant, pompous, and of little use to him. Either they’d lie to him, which was worthless, or they’d give him inside information, which was illegal.” - Den of Thieves
“Knowledgeable executives are plentiful, but executives are not being paid for knowing. They are being paid for getting the right things done.” - Peter Drucker
“Every philosophical school has its priests. Often they are very learned; it is their business to administer the idea of the original thinker, to impart it, to interpret it, to make it into a museum object and thus to guard it.” - On Disobedience by Eric Fromm
“There is something very odd about a society where the most talented people all get tracked toward the same elite colleges, where they end up studying the same small number of subjects and going into the same small number of careers.” - Peter Thiel