Gillbert 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

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me. — Jerry Uelsmann

I believe in the World as in a daisy.
Because I see it. But I don't think about it
Because thinking is not understanding ... — Fernando Pessoa

The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance, or frozen in a long night, can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where, and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life. — Winston S. Churchill

Is difficult. It's a weapon and a signal. It can paralyze or motivate. My — Amy Poehler

I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. — Rory Bremner

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death. — Bryce Dallas Howard

Starting in the seventeenth century, the general theory of extreme values - maxima and minima - has become one of the systematic integrating principles of science. — Richard Courant

We need beauty because it makes us ache to be worthy of it. — Mary Oliver

If man sees hazard as a misfortune rather than an opportunity, he will seek to close the door to freedom rather than keep it open. — J.G. Bennett

I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution. — Sarah Jessica Parker

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. — Benjamin Disraeli

Now, at last, we see a light, bright like that from the rising sun. It biddeth us to learn more that we may prosper more. With a new understanding we shall find honorable ways to accomplish our desires." "Let us go to Arkad this very day," Bansir urged, "Also, let us ask other friends of our boyhood days, who have fared no better than ourselves, to join us that they, too, may share in his wisdom." "Thou wert ever thus thoughtful of thy friends, Bansir. Therefore hast thou many friends. It shall be as thou sayest. We go this day and take them with us. — George S. Clason

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain. — Helen Clark MacInnes

A man away from home need feel no shame. Let's go out there and shame ourselves like crazy. — KAORI