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You cannot get blood out of a stone; You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear; You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs; You cannot make bricks without straw; You cannot push a rope; You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds (You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks; You cannot unscramble eggs; You cannot win them all
Alexithymia, also called emotional blindness, [1] is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, expressing, feeling, sourcing, [2] and describing one's emotions.
Take some time to check in with yourself. Schneider says that “Pause, reflect and respond” can be a helpful mantra when you feel a challenging mental state coming on.
Hofstadter's law is a self-referential adage, coined by Douglas Hofstadter in his book Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (1979) to describe the widely experienced difficulty of accurately estimating the time it will take to complete tasks of substantial complexity: [1] [2]
Which time of year you feel your best and worst It wasn’t just time of day or day of the week that influenced mood—the time of year also impacted respondents' well-being, researchers found.
The planning fallacy is a phenomenon in which predictions about how much time will be needed to complete a future task display an optimism bias and underestimate the time needed. This phenomenon sometimes occurs regardless of the individual's knowledge that past tasks of a similar nature have taken longer to complete than generally planned.
Two guys walk into a bar. The third one ducked. A photon goes to the airport. The ticket agent asks if there's any luggage to check. The photon replies, “No, I'm traveling light.”
Dick's speech lays out his characteristic, yet arcane thoughts on the philosophy of space and time and the concept of alternate universes within a hypothetical multiverse. The speech also discusses Dick's strange and unusual visions from 1974, his interpretation of Christian Gnosticism, and the role of alternate history in his published work.