Madame Le Prince De Beaumont 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

My dear Prince, might I beg you to move a little more that way, for your nose casts such a shadow that I really cannot see what I have on my plate — Andrew Lang

We are the leaders that we have been waiting for. We are the social innovators and entrepreneurs that we have been seeking. — Duane Elgin

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional. — AJ Lee

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear? — Donald Pleasence

I'm an enormous fan of people who have had a lot of faith in themselves, and been on a tremendous journey. — Joanna Trollope

A silent cry of the inmost heart for the mother, like the lowing of a calf in the twilight, - this — Rabindranath Tagore

Because when you go out, and you have fun, basically you're performing for these tabloid outlets and the paparazzi. And when you perform and create this story, they're chuffed - they get excited, they capture it, and they put it out. — Adrian Grenier

Lives fall apart when they need to be rebuilt. — Iyanla Vanzant