The 35-Second Aha! Moment
Every Monday, we're rounding up the things, small and big, that make us stop and think. Today, we're inspired by...
"Don't read your reviews— the bad ones hurt too much and the good ones make you weak.”
-Joan Rivers’ advice to comedian Louis CK.
"Media is killing our daughters' ambition and destroying empathy in our sons. Let’s demand a media that uplifts us all."
-Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the filmmaker behind the documentary Miss Representation, speaking at TEDxWomen last week.
-Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi, on trying to meditate while under house arrest.
"Don't read your reviews— the bad ones hurt too much and the good ones make you weak.”
-Joan Rivers’ advice to comedian Louis CK.
"Media is killing our daughters' ambition and destroying empathy in our sons. Let’s demand a media that uplifts us all."
-Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the filmmaker behind the documentary Miss Representation, speaking at TEDxWomen last week.
"If we want to understand plants, and their minds, we need to
start not with computation, but with the fact that they are alive."
-Alva Noë, writing about whether or not plants have minds.
"Like health itself, the loss of such a thing can’t be
imagined until it occurs."
-Writer Christopher Hitchens on losing his voice to cancer.
-Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Myanmar politician Aung San Suu Kyi, on trying to meditate while under house arrest.
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