Mental Depletion 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

Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams. — Paul Gauguin

Rafe pulled Cassandra into his arms. "At first, I wanted my arm back to feel whole again and to not appear weak before my enemies. Now I only want it to hold you. — Brooklyn Ann

He had a clear, lyrical voice and his songs remained in her ears long after the music had ended. — Hiroko Sherwin

"I do not ask for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the world within." — Louisa May Alcott

Opportunity is all around us, but we have beliefs and habits that block it. — Paul Buchheit

Elevate. Each day, live to elevate yourself, each day elevate one person. Make elevation your religion and you shall reach infinity. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Don King is my promoter, and I want to fight for him. I want to fight in the big fights, and hopefully he can see by me promoting my own show, beating a quality opponent, and bringing a crowd in, that he needs to use me again. The end goal is I want to be thrown in the deep end by Don King. If I'm not good enough, let's find out. — Mark De Mori

Make no mistake. The greatest destroyer of ecology. The greatest source of waste, depletion and pollution. The greatest purveyor of violence, war, crime, poverty, animal abuse and inhumanity. The greatest generator of personal and social neurosis, mental disorders, depression, anxiety. Not to mention the greatest source of social paralysis, stopping us from moving into new methodologies for personal health, global sustainability and progress on this planet, is not some corrupt government or legislation.
Not some rogue corporation or banking cartel.
Not some flaw of human nature and not some secret cabal that controls the world.
It is the socioeconomic system itself at its very foundation. — Peter Joseph

I notice that all of the people who support abortion are already born. — Ronald Reagan

Sometimes one 'needs' to use cleverness and kick wisdom aside.It's not everything that needs the application of wisdom, cleverness has a role to play. Andby the fact that one knows when to use cleverness and kick wisdomaside, is another wisdom of its own. — Emmanuel Aghado

When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously. — Norman Vincent Peale

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself. — Nhat Hanh