Coaxes Def Quotes & Sayings

When we are tired or preoccupied - what psychologists call 'resource-depleted' - we start to economise, to conserve those resources. Higher-order thinking is more expensive. So too is doubt, scepticism, arugment. 'Resource depletion specifically disables cognitive elaboration,' wrote Harvard psychologist Daniel Gillbert ... Because it takes less brain power to believe than to doublt, we are, when tired or distracted, gullible. Because we are all biased, and biases are quick and effortless, exhaustion tends to make us prefer the information we know and are comfortable with. We are too tired to do the heavier lifting of examining new or contradictory information, so we fall back on our biases the opinions and the people we already trust — Margaret Heffernan

I wonder why I never learn my lesson. It's feeling like the second chance and it's the first impression — Drake

Our character is revealed by how we treat people who cannot help us or hurt us. — Michael Josephson

Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable. — Lora Leigh

If you take away all the prairie dogs, there will be no one to cry for the rain. — Terry Tempest Williams

Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future. — Tucker Max

Long story short, that person is a complainer, not a customer. — Rob Fitzpatrick

A man who is not a fool can rid himself of every folly except vanity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

With all this wide and beautiful creation before me, the restless soul longs to enjoy its liberty and rest beyond its bound. — Teresa Of Avila

How the mind works, by what strange paths it pursues memory. — Lance Weller

Now, to describe the process of the Wrapped Reichstag, which went from 1971 to '95, there is an entire book about that, because each one of our projects has its own book. The book is not an art book, meaning it's not written by an art historian. — Christo