I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking – about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it – and how to approach things in a methodical manner. Ze Frank Read Quote
Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to be understood, to be told that it’s OK, that you’re not isolated and broken, that this is part of the human challenge, and that there is hope. The capacity for online interactions to do that is powerful. Ze Frank Read Quote
When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural – like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do – even the way they pushed their hair out of their face. Ze Frank Read Quote
A good procrastination should feel like you’re inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life. Ze Frank Read Quote
Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusive. Ze Frank Read Quote
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody’s paying attention. Because then when somebody finally does pay attention, it’s certainly a lot more interesting when you have a ton of stuff to show. Ze Frank Read Quote
We can’t all be like Ryan Seacrest… the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don’t know if we all have those gifts for restraining our emotions… or whatever it is he does. Ze Frank Read Quote
For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It’s time to bring them back. Ze Frank Read Quote
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see what this mass audience is really capable of. Ze Frank Read Quote
I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your creativity – you can feed it with content, with some rational prodding and sleep and things like that, but the mechanisms by which your creativity work are largely unknown. Ze Frank Read Quote