284 Quotes by Aziz Ansari

Now most young people spend their twenties and thirties in another stage of life, where they go to university, start a career, and experience being an adult outside of their parents’ home before marriage.

Today, if you own a smartphone, you’re carrying a 24-7 singles bar in your pocket.

People who own iPhones are twice as likely to sext as people who use Androids.

Another idea from social psychology that goes into our texting games is the scarcity principle. Basically, we see something as more desirable when it is less available. When you are texting someone less frequently, you are, in effect, creating a scarcity of you and making yourself more attractive.

If you live a responsible life, you’ll run into responsible people.

Among the older lovers, brain regions associated with anxiety were no longer active; instead, there was activity in the areas associated with calmness.”1 Neurologically it’s similar to the kind of love you feel for an old friend or a family member.

When you look at your phone and see a text from a potential partner, you don’t always see another person – you often see a little bubble with text in it. And it’s easy to forget that this bubble is actually a person.

Carol, I can’t describe how you make me feel. Wait, no, I can – you make my mind release pleasure-inducing neurotransmitters and you’ve flooded my mind with dopamine. If the experience of snorting cocaine and getting so high out of my mind that I want to climb a telephone pole with my bare hands just to see if I can do it were a person, it would be you.

We want something that’s very passionate, or boiling, from the get-go. In the past, people weren’t looking for something boiling; they just needed some water. Once they found it and committed to a life together, they did their best to heat things up. Now, if things aren’t boiling, committing to marriage seems premature.