When you think of technology that gets people excited – long lines at stores, enthusiastic reviews in the blogosphere, passionate evangelists – the first thing to come to mind probably isn’t thermostats. Then, along came Nest. – Ryan Holmes
I think it’s corny and cheesy for a dude to holler at a girl. That’s just disrespectful in my mind. I may talk to girls, but I don’t hang with girls; I don’t date girls. I haven’t really found anybody. – Rob Kardashian
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
It is the hopeful, buoyant, cheerful attitude of mind that wins. Optimism is a success builder; pessimism an achievement killer. – Orison Swett Marden
Before operating on a patient’s brain… I must first understand his mind: his identity, his values, what makes his life worth living, and what devastation makes it reasonable to let that life end. – Paul Kalanithi
It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don’t agree. The wounds remain. Time – the mind, protecting its sanity – covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. – Rose Kennedy
Sisters, do you realize the breadth and scope of your influence when you speak those things that come to your heart and mind as directed by the Spirit? – Russell M. Nelson
I don’t mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts. – Rachel Johnson
If I’ve got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I’ll be okay. – Rob Walton
I’ve always been fascinated by numbers. Before I was seventeen years old, I had lived in twenty-one different houses. In my mind, each of those houses had a number. – Robert Indiana
If I hadn’t read all of Jane Austen and DH Lawrence, Tolstoy and Proust, as well as the more fun stuff, I wouldn’t know how to break bad news, how to sympathise, how to be a friend or a lover, because I wouldn’t have any idea what was going on in anybody else’s mind. – Sebastian Faulks
If we’re really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate. – Ron Carlson
I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear. – Rosa Parks
Strong moral arguments exist for why we should often try to ignore stereotypes or override them. But we shouldn’t assume they represent some irrational quirk of the unconscious mind. In fact, they’re largely the consequence of the mind’s attempt to make a rational decision. – Paul Bloom
It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances. – Richard Jefferies
Indian culture certainly gives the Indian mind, including the mind of the Indian scientist, the ability to think out of the box. – Roland Joffe
Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart. – Robert Fulghum
The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity… The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. – Samuel Johnson
It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy’s mind from effort. – Quintilian
I’m a late developer in everything. I have a fast mind and fast metabolism, and I’m an intense worker, but in terms of life development, I’m way behind. – Richard C. Armitage
I personally have been drawn to female roles who are incredibly strong; females who are dominant and know their own mind; who are feisty in their own way without being annoying. I like it when she has a dark side, but she also has a playful side. – Rose Leslie