111 Quotes by Evan Davis

To behave unconventionally is liable to be misinterpreted.

The cognitive point here is that we generally make sense of confusing things by judging them against various preconceptions. When confronted with a new proposition we don’t start thinking about it with a blank sheet in front of us; instead, we place the proposition somewhere in relation to our pre-existing structure of beliefs and attitudes, this makes liked much easier, because we can reduce even a complicated judgement to a simple binary one – does it conform to my existing views or not?

The real point is always buried in the subtitles.

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Men don't know much about women. We do know when they're happy. We know when they're crying, and we know when they're pissed off. We just don't know in what order these are gonna come at us.

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.

Pictures, props, models, demos, all add punch and give a sense of having got some way into the process.

They both have the epic songs on them,

It was just Oceanside doing what Oceanside does. I was one-on-one and did what I had to do and the quarterback got me the ball.