Quotes About Awareness

and if we are to learn to improve the quality of the decisions we make, we need to accept the mysterious nature of our snap judgments.

second lesson of Blink. Too often we are resigned to what happens in the blink of an eye. It doesn't seem like we have much control over whatever bubbles to the surface from our unconscious. But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition. We can prevent the people fighting wars or staffing emergency rooms or policing the streets from making mistakes.

When you are drunk, your understanding of your true self changes.

Our mind, faced with a life-threatening situation, drastically limits the range and amount of information that we have to deal with. Sound and memory and broader social understanding are sacrificed in favor of heightened awareness of the threat directly in front of us.

When the screen created a pure Blink moment, a small miracle happened, the kind of small miracle that is always possible when we take charge of the first two seconds: they saw her for who she truly was.

Don't look at the stranger and jump to conclusions. Look at the stranger's world.

And that means when you confront the stranger, you have to ask yourself where and when you're confronting the stranger - because those two things powerfully influence your interpretation of who the stranger is.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that—sometimes—we're better off that way.

By making people think about jam, Wilson and Schooler turned them into jam idiots.

Malcolm Gladwell

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that- sometimes- we're better off that way.

Wolf and Bruhn had to convince the medical establishment to think about health and heart attacks in an entirely new way: they had to get them to realize that they wouldn't be

We need a trigger to snap out of the default to truth, but the threshold for triggers is high.

Our ignorance of the unfamiliar is what fuels our fear.

Nuestro inconsciente es una fuerza poderosa, pero falible. Nuestro ordenador interno no siempre se abre paso en las tinieblas ni descubre al instante la «verdad» de una situación. Puede ser derrotado, distraído y neutralizado.

Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days, it'd die of remorse on the third—

He was aware of a desire at once for complete glutted oblivion and for an innocent youthful fling. "Alas," a voice seemed to be saying also in his ear, "my poor little child, you do not feel any of these things really, only lost, only homeless.

The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action.

It's just like when you've got some coffee that's too black, which means it's too strong. What do you do? You integrate it with cream, you make it weak. But if you pour too much cream in it, you won't even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it puts you to sleep.

I for one believe that if you give people a thorough understanding of what confronts them and the basic causes that produce it, they'll create their own program, and when the people create a program, you get action.

Times change so quickly that if you and I don't keep up with the times, we'll find ourselves with an umbrella in our hand, over our head, when the sun is out. Or we'll find ourselves standing in the rain, with the umbrella inside the door.

the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist.

If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education.

If you don't visit the bad neighborhoods, the bad neighborhoods are going to visit you.