The act of learning to read added an entirely new circuit to our hominid brain’s repertoire. The long developmental process of learning to read deeply changed the very structure of that circuit’s connections, which rewired the brain, which transformed the nature of human thought. Maryanne Wolf Read Quote
Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange. Dan Gable Read Quote
I kind of feel like curling combines this weird vision of people sliding down a lane, and it looks like it combines bowling and every bar game I’ve ever played. But I still don’t understand what the hell it is. Joe Buck Read Quote
There’s no experience like going down an empty freeway toward a hurricane and then looking in the opposite lane and seeing bumper-to-bumper traffic, people fleeing that scene. Or going to a toxic spill and seeing people go the other way. You talk yourself into thinking you’re invincible in order to do that. Lester Holt Read Quote
Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there. Pink Read Quote
The things that I really enjoy doing are finding interesting problems and working together with colleagues to figure out how we can solve them. Jeff Dean Read Quote
