Makes You Think

“Humans don’t mind hardship, in fact they thrive on it; what they mind is not feeling necessary. Modern society has perfected the art of making people not feel necessary.” – Sebastian Junger

“Show me a man who thinks he’s objective and I’ll show you a man who’s deceiving himself.” – Henry Luce

“The best arguments in the world won’t change a single person’s mind. The only thing that can do that is a good story.” - Richard Powers

“Everyone encourages you to grow up to the point where you can discount your own bad moods. Few encourage you to continue to the point where you can discount society’s bad moods.” – Paul Graham

“All behavior makes sense with enough information.” – My brother in law, a social worker

“If you want these crazy ideas and these crazy stages, this crazy music, and this crazy way of thinking, there’s a chance it might come from a crazy person.” - Kanye West

“No harm’s done to history by making it something someone would want to read.” – David McCullough

“History as usually written is quite different from history as usually lived. The historian records the exceptional because it is interesting.” – Will Durant

“The cure for imposter syndrome is to realize that all the other people are just convincing imposters, too.” – Alison Gopnik