Ocupation: Paleontologist
Life: September 10, 1941 - May 20, 2002
Birthday: September 10
Death: May 20
We build our personalities laboriously and through many years, and we cannot order fundamental changes just because we might value their utility; no button reading "positive attitude" protrudes from our hearts, and no finger can coerce positivity into immediate action by a single and painless pressing.
source: Stephen Jay Gould (2011). “Full House”, p.47, Harvard University Press
topic: Attitude, Reading, Heart, Immediate Action, Coerce