Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering. Matthieu Ricard Read Quote
My mom rebuilt our family. That’s why my dad spent so much time talking about my mom, who he’s incredibly proud of. Beau Biden Read Quote
Post 9/11, so much has changed in New York that it does not give you that homely feeling which it did before. Mira Nair Read Quote
I realised that a lot of women felt the same way I did – they didn’t want to wear heavy make-up, but, for whatever reason, there were elements in their skin they want to smooth out or cover. Louise Nurding Read Quote
Because Tom Doherty and people like that are not stupid. If they could have streamlined their operation more to get more money out of it, they would have done it. It’s not like they’re a bunch of idiots. Jerry Pournelle Read Quote
There was a terrible fear for me when I started writing, which was that if you’d been denied unbelievably tumultuous experience, you didn’t have permission to write. Nathan Englander Read Quote
I can sit and write clever things, but that never quite works as well as when I’m just chatting about stupid things in the moment. Michael McIntyre Read Quote
