Carl Hart Quotes

If you hug someone for seven seconds, it gives you a chemical drop in your brain.

I can't get any satiation. My brain is wired in such a way that I - in my research, I probably have a lack of D1 and D2 receptor sites. These are dopamine receptor sites, and satiation is a process that involves a cascade.

I just like to see people smile.

I want to make a lot of people smile.

I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people - being always excited.

It's lovely to see people so happy.

I feel like people are actually just built differently, have different chemicals going on in their goddamn brain.

When the eyes of a woman that a man finds attractive look directly at him, his brain secretes the pleasure-inducing chemical dopamine - but not when she looks elsewhere.

People don't behave in angry ways unless they are feeling stressed and conflicted too.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.

Do people have a right to be angry about, not just the political class, but every institution in society? Absolutely. But neither anger nor fear will solve our problems. They can serve to motivate us, but it will not solve our problems.

I love to entertain. And I love the sound of people enjoying themselves.

Have you ever noticed that good people sleep better, but bad people seem to have more fun when they're awake?

Our cares are the mothers, not only of our charities And virtues, but of our best joys and most cheering and enduring pleasures.

I have angst in my life, but I'm like anybody. We all have angst in our lives that we pick up and fidget with and then we put down and look at some other things that make us feel good or enjoy our lives.

Most people rush after pleasure so fast that they rush right past it.

One study found that people who just thought about watching their favorite movie actually raised their endorphin levels by 27 percent.

Pain may be said to follow pleasure as its shadow.

Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

I want to be remembered for my football and the pleasure I gave people.

I think it's nice when everyone's happy. I'm that kind of person. But then sometimes you have people that are never happy, which also happened to me a little bit, people that always find ways to complain about everything. But if they're never happy, that's the way they are.

Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

I want people to FEEL something... If it's sadness, anger, horny, happiness whatever! As long as it doesn't just pass you by.

I think people can be trusted to know what makes them unhappy. Maybe we don't always know what we want exactly, but we can usually say what we don't with a fair amount of specificity.