Chabris Quotes & Sayings

My advice to young actors is probably to do some theatre; definitely do that. I keep running into these actors who have never been on stage, and it's invaluable for an actor. What you will learn about yourself is huge. — Yul Vazquez

The cool thing about being best friends is that you can make big plans even if there's only a slim chance in hell that they'll ever happen. — Yvonne Prinz

Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

Donald Trump is nuts, his party is chock full of nuts too, and that is bad news for Americans with a nut allergy. — Steve Merrick

If you can't keep quiet, shut up! — Gregory Ratoff

A dream is a manifestation. Just like what you live is a manifestation, but a dream is quicker and easier to achieve, and not so troublesome if there's something you don't want. — Abraham Hicks

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong. — Norm MacDonald

The near-continuous stream of new information pumped out by the Web also plays to our natural tendency to "vastly overvalue what happens to us right now," as Union College psychologist Christopher Chabris explains. We crave the new even when we know that "the new is more often trivial than essential. — Nicholas Carr

Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. — Tamora Pierce

Life becomes meaningful and all activities are purposeful only on the basis of faith in the enduring reality. — Meher Baba

Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. — Tiger Woods

Do the things you want to do; if you don't, the things which keep you alive inside you die and you turn into a ghost! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

the confidence people express often reflects their personalities rather than their knowledge, memory, or abilities. — Christopher Chabris

For those, like me, who fastidiously kept track of each time the basketball was being passed among white shirts yet somehow managed to overlook the conspicuous presence of a Halloween gorilla that strutted dead center into the visual field, the study served as a vivid demonstration that the perceptual skills on which we so greatly rely are, to put it mildly, far from flawless.
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There are, however, multiple implications to the invisible gorilla experiment findings. Chabris and Simons point out that their research "reveals two things: that we are missing a lot of what goes on around us, and that we have no idea that we are missing so much." In other words, we cannot see it all and we are affected by the false assumption that we mostly can. — Bob Katz

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long. — Ellen Glasgow