Quotes from Philip G. Zimbardo

Levine found that in general, the cities with the fastest pace of life were the least helpful.

Though the act of making one's own bed is simple and mundane, it reiterates that the little things in life can have a significant impact. 'If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right,' he said.

Future-oriented people tend to be more successful professionally and academically, to eat well, to exercise regularly, and to schedule preventive doctor's exams.

people who are predominantly present-oriented tend to be willing to help others but appear less willing or able to help themselves.

The pseudo-scientific myth that all women are naturally predisposed toward sexual restraint and all men toward promiscuity isn't only inaccurate but dangerous, leading directly to the notion that women who differ from that norm are unacceptable, need to be corrected or deserve to be mistreated,' says Zhana Vrangalova, professor of human sexuality at New York University.

now that many schools receive funding based on test results, teachers teach for those outcomes, not for curiosity or critical thinking, nor for learning nonspecific principals or values. Such training to focus on fact memorization lowers the intellectual level of the teachers themselves, not just their bored students.

The psychological term for this process is "construal," which refers to the way that each of us understands and explains the world. Once

our use of electronic media—use of televisions, radios, computers, phones, iPods and MP3s, videos, and game players—now accounts for an average of slightly under eight hours (470 minutes) in an average American's typical twelve-and-a-half-hour day. Over

three hours of this time (202 minutes) is spent entirely focused on electronic media. Only fifty-two minutes—or 7 percent of the day—is spent reading books and other printed media. The

Time even influenced postmodern artists such as Picasso, Braque, and Dalí. Picasso and Braque's cubist style, for instance, depicts people and objects as they exist from all perspectives simultaneously, while Salvador Dalí's Persistence of Memory depicts the malleability and relativity of time.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you'll get bad apples.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.