“Facial displays are not fixed, semantic read-outs of internal states such as emotions or intentions, but flexible tools for social influence. Facial displays are not about us, but about changing the behavior of those around us.”
“The best way to find a friend is when you’ve already got one — and you know how to use them.”
“If people walked continuously for five minutes or longer, meaning in exercise bouts, they lowered their risk of dying young. But they gained the same benefit if they walked sporadically in short but repeated spurts, as long as they moved often.”
“Sometimes the artist needs to turn off, to get out in the fray, to stop worrying over when her imagination’s pot will boil — because, of course, it won’t if she’s watching.”
“We looked for dishes that have been endlessly adopted or outright copycatted on other menus, kicked off a lasting trend, or became staples that still define the way we eat today in 2018.”
“The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave.” — Evgeny Morozov
“Gratitude, when we do genuinely feel it, arises from experiences we are currently having, not from evaluating our lives in our heads.”
“Every time I gave my attention to anything besides myself, I was actually telling myself, ‘This random thought is more important than you are.’”
“If you find yourself typing certain replies or phrases over and over, then you would benefit from Gmail’s Canned Responses feature. This lets you create saved responses that you can later access, keeping you from having to retype the text.”
“You know zero people that have built something big that haven’t put in a ridiculous amount of work. And the bigger it is, the more they worked.”