Quotes About Thoughts

Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.

Facts that we know do not always come to mind when we need them. People

Simple, common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.

Inconsistencies reduce the ease of our thoughts and the clarity of our feelings.

You may know that there is really (almost) nothing to worry about, but you cannot help images of disaster from coming to mind.

The conclusion is straightforward: self-control requires attention and effort. Another way of saying this is that controlling thoughts and behaviors is one of the tasks that System 2 performs.

The "Florida effect" involves two stages of priming. First, the set of words primes thoughts of old age, though the word old is never mentioned; second, these thoughts prime a behavior, walking slowly, which is associated with old age. All this happens without any awareness.

The core of the illusion is that we believe we understand the past, which implies that the future also should be knowable, but in fact we understand the past less than we believe we do. Know is not the only word that fosters this illusion. In common usage, the words intuition and premonition also are reserved for past thoughts that turned out to be true.

When no recent event comes to mind, more distant memories govern.

Most impressions and thoughts arise in your conscious experience without your knowing how they got there. You cannot trace how you came to the belief that there is a lamp on the desk in front of you, or how you detected a hint of irritation in your spouse's voice on the telephone, or how you managed to avoid a threat on the road before you became consciously aware of it. The mental work that produces impressions, intuitions, and many decisions goes on in silence in our mind.

common gestures can also unconsciously influence our thoughts and feelings.

The mental work that produces impressions, intuitions, and many decisions goes on in silence in our mind.

The answer to this question may surprise you, but it is straightforward: you get pleasure (or displeasure) from your car when you think about your car, which is probably not very often.

The defining feature of System 2, in this story, is that its operations are effortful, and one of its main characteristics is laziness, a reluctance to invest more effort than is strictly necessary. As a consequence, the thoughts and actions that System 2 believes it has chosen are often

Most impressions and thoughts arise in your conscious experience without your knowing how they got there.

I'm in a very good mood today, and my System 2 is weaker than usual. I should be extra careful.

One of the main functions of System 2 is to monitor and control thoughts and actions "suggested" by System 1, allowing some to be expressed directly in behavior and suppressing or modifying others.

Amintirea e un lucru ciudat. Nu vine ?i pleac? pur ?i simplu când vrea ea, ci po?i s-o aprinzi ?i apoi s-o stingi ca pe un vreasc de foc.

Materialism: The philosophical position that there is only one thing in the universe: stuff, matter. Anything other than matter is either reducible to matter, as thoughts are reducible to the matter of a brain doing its thing, or doesn't exist, like the Tooth Fairy.

Don't be discouraged by negative thoughts that may arise unbidden in your mind. You may feel like you should not say or do things that do not feel true in your heart, but such thoughts are destructive and violate biblical secrets of ancient Jewish wisdom.

The mind work sometimes in life as it does in a dream. It makes substitutions...

Oh Devi, some people claim, "The body is made up of impurities such as germs, worms, faeces, urine, phlegm, blood, flesh, skin, and so on. How can we offer such a body to the Guru?" With thoughts like these, they don't make an offering.

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement with our will. It is strange to realize that even our own thoughts pass by like scenery out the window of a bus, a bus we took by accident while trying to get somewhere else.

They sat in an awkward, embarrassed silence for a moment, the way Englishmen are apt to do after sharing private thoughts.