Doublt 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

When we hear these kinds of excuses from a drunk, we assume they are exactly that - excuses. We don't consider an active alcoholic a reliable source of insight. So why should we let an angry and controlling man be the authority on partner abuse? — Lundy Bancroft

You don't have to thank me. I love you. — Jessica Calla

Obstacles don't have to stop you. — Michael Jordan

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and ... I worked on that. — James Iha

Although everyone wants to change the teacher, it's time for the agents of educational reform to change themselves. — Andy Hargreaves

Every time I had dared to hope for something in my life, it seemed that fate, like a small, angry child, went out of its way to make sure I not only didn't get it but was instead rewarded with the exact opposite. — John Goode

You lose somebody you've possibly known for years and on top of that you lose a character that you love seeing on TV so I think that kind of makes it cool that we pay a price too. That it is painful on many levels and its amazing to be writing that moment and crossing that line right on the page and seeing the ugliness of it and having to deal with it. It's a very weird thing. — Scott M. Gimple

Non violence means people in action. People have to understand that with non-violence goes a hell of a lot of organization. — Cesar Chavez

If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle. — Elmer Seward

The diminution of the reality of class, however socially desirable in many respects, seems to have the practical effect of diminishing our ability to see people in their difference and specialness. — Lionel Trilling

The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit ... a reputation, character. — John D. Rockefeller

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old. — Abraham Lincoln

I don't think the Federal Reserve has any role in how high rates are right now. I don't understand why everyone is paying attention to this tapering. The Fed is using one kind of bond to buy another kind of bond. What's the big deal, and why is anyone taking the Fed seriously? — Eugene Fama

I want to be fulfilled in myself, rather than try to follow exactly in my father's footsteps. — Ziggy Marley

Gregor Samsa awoke one morning to find himself turned into an enormous symbol. — Howard Mittelmark