Andrew J. Bernstein Quotes

The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.

I think human beings are funny, tricky things.

The role of anxiety in the development of human personality is central, and it is intricate beyond our understanding.

How man evolved with such an incredible reservoir of talent and such fantastic diversity isn't completely understood... he knows so little and has nothing to measure himself against.

We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.

The number of stressors has multiplied exponentially: traffic, money, success, work/life balance, the economy, the environment, parenting, family conflict, relationships, disease. As the nature of human life has become far more complicated, our ancient stress response hasn't been able to keep up.

A child raised on a desert island, alone, without social interaction, without language, and thus lacking empathy, is still a sentient being.

What's taking place during stress is actually much simpler than a transaction between stressful life events and you. There aren't two parties involved in stress. There is only one - your own mind.

The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists.

Anxiety is a natural thing humans have. You know, that's how we evolve. That's how we are, you know, we think things through. Sometimes my mind just thinks things through a lot.

People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Actually, in the wild, we'd be the only person that we wouldn't recognize, if you think about it.

Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

Man is the only animal that laughs and has a state legislature.

It's the age-old thing - it's such a cliche - but why worry about things you have no control over?

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution.

What is it that really makes us, us? It's our collective intelligence. It's our ability to write things down, our language and our consciousness.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

The function of intellect is to provide a means of modifying our reactions to the circumstances of life, so that we may secure pleasure, the symptom of welfare.

The truth is, I'm not a coper. I hate stress. I might appear calm externally but internally it's all going on.

I know from my own experience that there is much more to 'intelligence' than an IQ number. In fact, I hesitate to believe that any system could really reflect the complexity and uniqueness of one person's mind, or meaningfully describe the nature of his or her potential.

The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Man is a recording animal.