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“the confidence people express often reflects their personalities rather than their knowledge, memory, or abilities.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Your moment-to-moment expectations, more than the visual distinctiveness of the object, determine what you see—and what you miss.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Beware of memories accompanied by strong emotions and vivid details—they are just as likely to be wrong as mundane memories, but you’re far less likely to realize it.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Hofstadter’s law tells us: “It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“the more attention-demanding tasks your brain does, the worse it does each one.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“People are confident that they can drive and talk on the phone simultaneously precisely because they almost never encounter evidence that they cannot.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“confidence and ability can diverge so far that relying on the former becomes a gigantic mental trap,”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“we easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we understand and can explain things that we really know very little about.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“But as you’ll see in this chapter, the confidence that people project, whether they are diagnosing a patient, making decisions about foreign policy, or testifying in court, is all too often an illusion.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Unlike the rankings published for most sports, the chess rating system is extremely accurate; for practical purposes, your rating is a nearly perfect indicator of your ability.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“The human mind’s tendency to promiscuously perceive meaningful visual patterns in randomness has a one-word name: pareidolia.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Both experimental and epidemiological studies show that the driving impairments caused by talking on a cell phone are comparable to the effects of driving while legally intoxicated.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Ellen Goodman wrote, “The very same people who use cell phones … are convinced that they should be taken out of the hands of (other) idiots who use them.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Expertise helps you notice unexpected events, but only when the event happens in the context of your expertise.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“Be wary of your intuitions, especially intuitions about how your own mind works.”
― quote from The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
“And even though he enjoyed being around her, he resisted her,
because he was supremely aware that he wasn't the old Robert any longer; he was Bit, a piece of what
he'd once been.”
― Suzanne Enoch, quote from England's Perfect Hero
“In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own voice, which makes your work distinctive.”
― quote from Art and Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
“Get Well Soon. People sent me get well soon cards while I was in a mental hospital. There were fluffy little bunnies, floaty rainbows, and even a religious card. I could understand that Hallmark probably doesn’t make “Get Sane Soon” cards, but still. Was I not well before? Am I well now? Who decides?”
― Julie Halpern, quote from Get Well Soon
“Omniscient, omnipotent, omnivorous and omnipresent all begin with Om.”
― Ashwin Sanghi, quote from The Krishna Key
“Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence so why bother shaving?”
― Woody Allen, quote from Without Feathers
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