Maria Konnikova quotes
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“All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
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“But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
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“the most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.264, Penguin
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“Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.”
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“As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.10, Canongate Books
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“Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
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“How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.16, Penguin
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“When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books
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“Imagination is all about new possibilities, eventualities that don't exist, counterfactuals, a recombination of elements in new ways. It is about the untested. And the untested is uncertain. It is frightening-even”
-- Maria KonnikovaSource : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.99, Canongate Books
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Source : Aaron Siskind, Maricia Battle, Ann Banks, Federal Writers' Project, National Museum of American Art (U.S.) (1990). “Harlem photographs, 1932-1940”, Smithsonian Inst Pr
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“Do not be fooled by your youthful appearance for very soon it would be taken away from you.”
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Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.21, Lulu.com
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Source : A. Lee Martinez (2007). “In the Company of Ogres”, p.139, Macmillan
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Source : Abba Solomon Eban (1968). “Forward to peace: text of the address in the twenty-third plenary session of the Gerneral Assembly of the United Nations, Monday, 8 October, 1968”
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Source : Abigail Reynolds (2010). “Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice: A modern love story with a Jane Austen twist”, p.252, Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Source : Aidan Chambers (2012). “Dying to Know You”, p.189, Abrams
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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