Indeed, Cialdini finds that people donate more money to charity when the phrase even a penny will help is added to a request.
Our lives sometimes depend on computers performing as predicted.
We're going to be able to ask our computers to monitor things for us, and when certain conditions happen, are triggered, the computers will take certain actions and inform us after the fact.
Let's go invent tomorrow instead of worrying about what happened yesterday.
He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.
Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.
If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father l...
My father, [was] a mid-level phonecompany manager who treated my mother at best like an incompetent employee. At worst? He never beat her, but his pure, inarticulate fury would fill the house for days...
That's what drives science though: trying to find out the way things are, the way they were, and the way it really works. If that is your goal, then you want to make sure that your information is accu...
The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
Her screams spiraled up into the night air