Leonard Mlodinow quotes
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“Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.”
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“One thing that feeds into the way you experience the social world is your mood - and one thing that affects your mood is the weather.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : "Leonard Mlodinow On Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior". Interview with Debra Ollivier, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.
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“Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.117, Vintage
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“Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.”
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“Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.79, Vintage
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“A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.”
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“Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, that´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and that´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."”
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“When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.164, Penguin UK
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“What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.”
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“That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.14, Vintage
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“Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2012). “Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior”, p.19, Vintage
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“We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Leonard Mlodinow (2009). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.189, Penguin UK
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“We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.”
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“Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.”
-- Leonard MlodinowSource : Deepak Chopra, Leonard Mlodinow (2011). “War of the Worldviews: Where Science and Spirituality Meet -- and Do Not”, p.12, Harmony
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