Chabris And Simons Quotes & Sayings

You three have done quite enough today: all of you and your feckless, treacherous god. — Janet Morris

Our neighbour's tree is our tree; our tree is our neighbour's tree! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is my hope that by reducing the tax burden on small business owners that we can help them grow their businesses and, in doing so, create jobs. — John Liu

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I pace myself by taking a week-long vacation every four months. — Marissa Mayer

I'm traveling 90 kilometers per day as usual, but I only get 37 kilometers closer to Schiaparelli because Pythagoras is a dick. — Andy Weir

Real inquiry is a tremendous moral transforming force. It's not just questioning and looking for a quick answer or explanation, but the process of inquiry-of questioning, of opening-opens something in the human being which has not been touched in our culture. Everybody who is human has in themselves the potential of passionate inquiry after truth, and that's the transforming force. — Jacob Needleman

Skinny jeans are usually my go to jean. I do bootleg every once in a while, boyfriend jeans I feel like are so hard to pull off! Skinny jeans are very easy and you can kind of pair anything with them and it will work: heels and boots or nice top or flouncy top. — Ashley Greene

Never confuse movement with action. — Ernest Hemingway,

You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready. — Charles Dickens

I was a lawyer and I loved it, but my Francesca was born, and a divorce followed way too soon after. — Lisa Scottoline

Cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease. Nothing wrong with saturated fats. — Rush Limbaugh

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission. — Stewart Udall

I don't think people buy technology products because of the personalities of the people behind them. — Jim Balsillie

Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. — M. Scott Peck

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