Dean Hamer famous quotes

How you feel right now is about equally genetic and circumstantial, but how you will feel on average over the next ten years is fully 80 percent because of your genes.
-- Dean Hamer

#Happiness #Average #Years

William Stillman continues his fascinating exploration of the myriad connections between autism and human personality. The Soul of Autism makes a strong case for why we should embrace rather than fear the differences between us.
-- Dean Hamer

#Strong #Differences #Autism

Oh dear, you are confusing molecular science with ancient history.
-- Dean Hamer

#Confusing #Marriage Equality #Ancient

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.
-- Dean Hamer

#Spirituality

Congenial labor is the secret of happiness.

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

What does 'happy' mean? Happiness is not a state like Vermont.

The only happy people I know are the ones who are working well at something they consider important.

Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing individuals have "superior awareness of their own impulses, desires, opinions, and subjective reactions in general."

What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.

Space is certainly something more complicated than the average person would probably realize. Space is not just an empty background in which things happen.

I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn.

One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.