Depression is not generalized pessimism, but pessimism specific to the effects of one’s own skilled action.
– Robert M Sapolsky
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- If a rat is a good model for your emotional life, you’re in big trouble. – Robert M Sapolsky
- Friends are the best anti-depressants; with only positive effects, no side-effects. – Piyush Kaviraj
- Just as we leave the effects of our work behind in results, we leave the effects of our interactions with people in their hearts, minds, and souls. – Henry Cloud
- First rate magician perform first rate magic effects, second rate magician performs third rate magic effects. – Amit Kalantri
- Give royal treatment to your original magic effects, because one of the effects might make you the king of magic. – Amit Kalantri
- Poverty Effeciency Syndrome are multiple negative poverty effects (Self induced effects,acquired,inherited..) – Ikechukwu Joseph
- A static action is never an action. A real action is an action in motion! Dare to do something! – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- There is enough work for every soul, if we use our specific gifts to meet the specific needs of the society. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- For specific prayers, there are specific answers. – Dr Lucas D Shallua
- The greatest effects we have on the world are the ones we can never see. – Chris Matakas
- If depression was a choice, no one would choose it. Depression is not a choice. – Northern Adams
- But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – Hazel Grace Lancaster – John Green
- Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression. – Jan Wong
- depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. – John Green
- I am beautifully on my own. I am free. At the end of the day, we should be our own heroes. Our own savers. Our own heroes. – Robert Black
- Your life will be simplified when you choose inaction when no action is required and choose action when action is required! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
- You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
- Power is a game, and in games you do not judge your opponents by their intentions but by the effects of their actions. – Robert Greene
- The real winners I’ve met in life weren’t necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up. – Curtis Rivers
- Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. – Lester B Pearson
- Leadership. When you attract more skilled people than you. – Alin Sav
- Leadership means welcoming the truth, that there might be a more skilled one than you. – Alin Sav
- Arjun: …the men are talking because you’re beautiful.Sita: …I would much rather they talk about me because I’m skilled. – Michelle Moran
- There is nothing higher-class than real craftsmanship, diversity, originality and the service of skilled human hands. – Bryant McGill
- If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556). – Richard Baxter
- People like my grandmother, who have no home but in memory, learn to be very skilled in the art of recollection. – Amitav Ghosh
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- A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. – English Proverb
- A smooth sea never made a skilled marine. – English Proverb
- Being skilled in Catsism is like being a ninja only deadlier and not so silent. The only bad thing is the sickening grammar you have to use. – Will Advise
- To exist here, I’ll have to become skilled in saying no-”an art in which I was once well accomplished, but one I no longer care to practice. – Doug Cooper
- The heart of woman is like a diamond, who need a good skilled hunter. – Eyden I
- Those who are skilled in combat do not become angry. The wise win before the fight and the ignorant fight to win. – Ziad K Abdelnour
- She’s a skilled and swift fight, and I know she’ll pass on her training on to you. – Erin Hunter
- Pessimism is the key to see what really goes on within our world, the lies and manipulation that circles us all is exposed – Zachary Kroonenburg
- Little Pessimism in life reminds of staying alive and not wandering in a fairy land. – Vikram Adhikari
- I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it’s going to rain, it will. – Clint Eastwood
- But something held him, as the fatalist can always be held: by curiosity, pessimism, by sheer inertia. – William Faulkner