Quotes About Mind

think of baseball, because you don't

It was as if he had been assigned to take apart a fiendishly complicated alarm clock to see why it wasn't working, only to discover that an important part of the clock was inside his own mind.

a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

He had a diffidence about him—an understanding of how hard it is to know anything for sure. The closest he came to certainty was in his approach to making decisions. He never simply went with his first thought. He suggested a new definition of the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

people had the ability to hold in their short-term memory seven items, more or less.

When your daughter is late and you worry, it fills your mind even when you know there is very little to fear." You'd pay more than you should to rid yourself of that worry.

With the passage of time, the consequences of any event accumulated, and left more to undo. And the more there is to undo, the less likely the mind is to even try. This was perhaps one way time heals wounds, by making them feel less avoidable.

If our minds can be misled by our false stereotype of something as measurable as randomness, how much might they be misled by other, vaguer stereotypes?

The mind was more like a coping mechanism than it was a perfectly designed tool. "The brain appears to be programmed, loosely speaking, to provide as much certainty as it can," he once said, in a talk to a group of Wall Street executives. "It is apparently designed to make the best possible case for a given interpretation rather than to represent all the uncertainty about a given situation.

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things. Over and again in the draft you saw these crystal-clear pictures form in the minds of basketball experts which later proved a mirage.

Inside him a quality and a chemical—intelligence and testosterone—wrestled for hegemony.

the nerd: a person who knows his own mind well enough to mistrust it.

Maybe the mind's best trick of all was to lead its owner to a feeling of certainty about inherently uncertain things.

I hated discussing ideas with investors, he said, because I then become a Defender of the Idea, and that influences your thought process. Once you became an idea's defender you had a harder time changing your mind about it.

Daryl Morey believed—if he believed in anything—in taking a statistically based approach to decision making. And the most important decision he made was whom to allow onto his basketball team. "Your mind needs to be in a constant state of defense against all this crap that is trying to mislead you," he said. "We're always trying to figure out what's a trick and what's real. Are we seeing a hologram? Is this an illusion?

In the story, an old man tells his grandson that he has a fight going on inside him, and has done his whole life. Between two wolves. One is a bad wolf – a wolf consumed with anger, regret, resentment and sorrow. The other wolf is good, with a heart filled with kindness, compassion and hope. Even joy. The boy asks which wolf will win in the end. The old man looks at him very seriously and says: "The one you feed.

Man can live by bread alone when all his energies are devoted to attaining that bread, but once his mind is clear, once he has ceased to labour through all his waking hours to find food, then he begins to think.

For the mind of man alone is free to explore the lofty vastness of the cosmic infinite, to transcend ordinary consciousness, to roam the secret corridors of the brain where past and future melt into one... And universe and individual are linked, the one mirrored in the other, and each contains the other.

He was an autodidact, and he believed his mind could read the motives and spirit behind any invention. He had immediately invented the pocket shirt, which allowed fuzes and gadgets to be stored easily by a working sapper.

She finds rest as opposed to sleep the truly pleasurable state.

when you're angry and filled with hate for someone, he's in your head; he owns you.

Normal waking consciousness feels perfectly transparent, and yet it is less a window on reality than the product of our imaginations-a kind of controlled hallucination.

Daily, our eating turns nature into culture, transforming the body of the world into our bodies and minds.

This is part of human nature, the desire to change consciousness.