Nobody is wired wrong, because there's no wrong and right in the way we are.
The way our brain is wired, we only see what we believe is possible. We match patterns that already exist within ourselves through conditioning.
I'm fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that I've wired myself for failure.
When you are wired to God in a unique way, nothing can separate you from the love of God
It was the academic community who wired up their universities so it was put together by smart, well-meaning people who thought it was a good idea.
Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
I think it's the way I'm wired, the way I'm built. I want to improve. If you're not improving, someone's passing.
People aren't wired to be alone. Even in the stressful population of prison, solitary confinement is still considered a cruel punishment.
It's how I'm wired. If I'm not the best at something, it ticks me off, and I want to work harder to be the best. It's also the way I was raised.
I think humans are just hard-wired to process people's faces and understand meaning and expression at such a more granular level than other types of communication.
I'm not a narcissist, but I definitely have gotten enough explosive narcissistic shrapnel from my father. I'm sort of wired that way, but I don't feel that I'm pathological, so all I can pull from is my own existence and my knowledge.
Millions of years ago, our brains became wired to remember about 150 people as 'close friends.'
Even before I helped to co-found Microsoft, I saw a connected future . . . I called that future The Wired World.
Every one of our 10,000 taste buds is wired for sugar. But we aren't born liking salt - we develop a taste for it at about 6 months.
I'll always have to force myself to see the positive, because I'm wired badly, I'd say. I'm just naturally a bit under, a bit depressed.
Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.
A lot of people thought the sense of self was hard-wired, but it's not at all. It can be changed very quickly, and that's very intriguing.
The last time I was unemployed was 1989, and I've seen the research on retired people and how they feel about it. I'm definitely wired in a way that you wouldn't predict it would go wonderfully.
To the small group of editors and designers who would launch Wired in January 1993, technology represented the future's best hope; but to the media, the tech boom was yesterday's story.
I'm hard-wired to view everything that Albany does through the lens of a local town, city, county official.
Not even identical twins can have the exact same experiences, and their brains are not wired the same way.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
Every human being was wired with the desire for happiness. And we will try different things all in the pursuit of that feeling.
I'm not, like, a gregarious guy. I don't walk into a room and want to engage people. I'm just not wired that way. One on one, I'm fine.
When we agree to being part of something bigger than our own wired, fixated minds, we are saved.
I am wired on some deep level to seek out something to be worried and obsess about.
I'm a kind of hard-wired pessimist. I can't help but see the world in a certain kind of way.
When I wrote for TV, I was always thinking in terms of character and story. After fifteen years, it became hard-wired in me.
Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.
The hyperfast-moving, wired-up, reengineered, quality-obsessed organization will succeed or fail on the strength of the trust that its managers place in the folks working on the front line.
The average investor does significantly worse than a simple index... It's literally because of the way our brains are wired.
You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.
As we all know, poets are born brain-wired a certain way and every poet I know wrote as a child. I'm no exception.
By God’s design, he has wired his children for spiritual reproduction. He has woven into the fabric of every single Christian’s DNA a desire and ability to reproduce.
Sometimes when I'm really enjoying a book, I'll read a sentence or paragraph and just think - how can someone's head be wired in such a way that they'd come up with that?
Gay rights is just one of the social issues I'm interested in. I think that people might be less tense about it if we would all accept the fact that not everyone is wired the same way.
To see things differently requires you to be wired a little differently.
From 1999 on - until 2003 - I covered publishing in a weekly column for Wired.com and wrote for several other publications - altogether writing over 150 articles.
I got a short - I got a temper. I fight in a cage for a living. There's a reason people like us are wired slightly different.
Most relationships probably start with people going, 'Meh, it's probably best not to be embarking in this relationship.' We do it, though, because our brains are wired to make babies or whatever.
I've never argued that humans are massively hot-wired. What I was trying to point out was that you can't understand how we learn unless you identify the learning mechanisms. And these have some genetic basis.
Our retinas and brains have been wired by a hundred million years of evolution to find outlines in a visually complex landscape. This helps us to recognize prey and predators.
I've learned to recognize, a lot of it forced through the process of recovery, that I'm wired wrong in certain ways; the chemical balance of my brain is off in terms of depression a little bit.
My wife and I don't have kids and people are down on us about it. But we're just not wired that way, so don't tell me I have to.
When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn’t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics.
Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.
Inexpensive phones and pay-as-you go services are already spreading mobile phone technology to many parts of that world that never had a wired infrastructure.
A lot of these coaches, they're almost like military leaders, and the media is the enemy. Football coaches are just wired tight.
To create a truly digital Europe will require a foundation of high-speed, high-quality broadband, both wired and wireless.
We are like coral animals in a vast reef of excreted technological material that is wired for solid state data transfer.
You know, sometimes I think people in politics are always looking for the next job and the next opportunity. And frankly, that's just not the way I'm wired.
We seem wired to grieve with greenery. Allowing the dead to dissolve into the earth, to become part of the cycle of the seasons, has, for millennia, held the promise of cheating mortality.
It doesn't matter if it's a wireless or wired network. I think network management can be introduced that is equally sensible.
Intelligence officers are a peculiar lot. Whether they are active or retired, their brains are wired for a completely different way of seeing the world around them.
I would probably struggle a bit more with a really dramatic serious-intent story. You have to really bring it. My brain is so comically wired, though.
I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device.
It's even hard for people to imagine today that telephones were wired, and they certainly were and you went to the end of a wire to make a phone call.
I'm an Internet expert too. It's all right to wire the industrial zone only, but there are many problems if other regions of the North are wired.
The universe is wired to give us what we need, yet we have to show up for the experience of life with a positive attitude in order to experience its gifts.
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