“While people’s brains certainly enjoy beauty, our appreciation is often not that straightforward because our perceptions are also influenced by everything else about a particular interaction.”— Amanda Mull, theatlantic.com
“But I can do 40-inch box jumps now. Action-hero physical stuff. Jumping that high feels really good. You see a giant hillside, and you think, I wanna get up that. You see a building, you think, I could climb that. When you get in shape, the world around you becomes things you wanna jump on and climb…”— Chris Pratt, esquire.com
“The satisfaction of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence has been known to make a man quiet and easy. It seems to relieve him of the felt need to offer chattering interpretations of himself to vindicate his worth. He simply points: the building stands, the car now ru…”— Matthew B. Crawford, amazon.com