Marshalee George Quotes & Sayings

A crucial capability of System 2 is the adoption of "task sets": it can program memory to obey an instruction that overrides habitual responses. Consider the following: Count all occurrences of the letter f in this page. This is not a task you have ever performed before and it will not come naturally to you, but your System 2 can take it on. It will be effortful to set yourself up for this exercise, and effortful to carry it out, though you will surely improve with practice. Psychologists speak of "executive control" to describe the adoption and termination of task sets, and neuroscientists have identified the main regions of the brain that serve the executive function. One of these regions is involved whenever a conflict must be resolved. Another is the prefrontal area of the brain, a region that is substantially more developed in humans than in other primates, and is involved in operations that we associate with intelligence. — Daniel Kahneman

Behavior speaks ... If you're chasing them, it means they're running from you. Save your energy. — Steve Maraboli

No one likes to admit they are racist or bear prejudices. Nor do they even like to be open and honest when they witness racist behaviour. — Martin Jacques

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen. — A.A. Gill

Apollo was held the god of physic and sender of disease. Both were originally the same trade, and still continue. — Jonathan Swift

I called to buy some meth, but I threw it away. — Ted Haggard