I’ve seen extreme bravery from the least likely of people. Life is about the moments when it’s all gone wrong. That’s when we define
Bear Grylls
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And to think I saw it on Mulberry street (Dr. Seuss, 1937) – 27 rejections A Time to Kill (1989) John Grisham (26 rejections)
George Gissing
Darling, they do struggle. But it’s as if an ever-increasing weight were round their necks; it drags them lower and lower. The world has
George Gissing
‘That’s twaddle, Dora. Fools will be fools to the world’s end. Answer a fool according to his folly; supply a simpleton with the reading
George Gissing
‘To be sure, to be sure. And then, you know,’ added Whelpdale, glancing anxiously at Dora, ‘when people had been attracted by these devices,
George Gissing
But try to imagine a personality wholly unfitted for the rough and tumble of the world’s labour-market. From the familiar point of view these
George Gissing
Yet this energetic lady had no social ambitions that pointed above her own stratum. She did not aim at intimacy with her superiors; merely
Mark Mattson, Chief of neurosciences lab, National Institute on Aging
The growth factors represent a key link between stress, metabolism and memory. ‘The complexity of our brain evolved mainly so we can compete for
John J. Ratey, MD
The stress of exercise is predictable and controllable because you’re initiating the action, and these two variables are key to psychology.
Dr. Robert Pyles, Former president, American Psychoanalytic Association
Back then, doctors had no appreciation whatsoever for exercise as being beneficial in any way. I still think it’s dramatically under-appreciated. Particularly in psychiatry.