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| 6256526 | Deep concentration causes the energy consumption in your brain to go up by only about 1 percent. No matter what you are doing with your conscious mind, it is your unconscious that dominates your mental activity--and therefore uses up most of the energy consumed by the brain. Regardless of whether your conscious mind is idle or engaged, your unconscious mind is hard at work doing the mental equivalent of push-ups, squats, and wind sprints. O | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 690e87c | Your amicable words mean nothing if your body seems to be saying something different. --JAMES BORG I | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 533d824 | Chemicals were easier to procure than friends, and when I wanted to play with them they never said they had to stay home to wash their hair or, less politely, that they didn't associate with weirdos. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 03175af | Our species had to engage in complex cooperative behavior in order to survive in the wild, and--as I keep reminding my teenage children--pointing and grunting get you only so far. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 60b82e0 | a thousand years without a bath. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 6f5b26c | few people would engage in extended activity if they believed that there were a random connection between what they did and the rewards they received,"15 Lerner concluded that "for the sake of their own sanity," people overestimate the degree to which ability can be inferred from success." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| cfa0c57 | the invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 788fc41 | paleontological evidence suggests that the early farmers had more spinal issues, worse teeth, and more anemia and vitamin deficiencies--and died younger--than the populations of human foragers who preceded them. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 830ab5a | research on hunter-gatherer groups ranging from the nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centuries shows that the average nomad worked just two to four hours each day. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 7398357 | discovering that hunter-gatherers had constructed Gobekli Tepe was like finding that someone had built a 747 in a basement with an X-Acto knife. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 9099aef | Stephen Hawking once told me that there was a sense in which he was glad to be paralyzed, because it allowed him to focus much more intensely on his work. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 799d921 | Michael Jordan once said, "I've missed more than nine thousand shots in my career. I've lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 6c5375a | Newton was "not finally reducible to the criteria by which we comprehend our fellow human beings." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 3159792 | 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 Mlodinow | ||
| 904d5e0 | Pauli turned to the audience and argued, "Yes, my theory is crazy enough!" Then Bohr insisted, "No, your theory is not crazy enough!" | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| bdf6764 | Not too long ago, the man who was then the president of Iran was quoted as saying that Jews descended from monkeys and pigs. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 13a7d00 | It is always heartening when a fundamentalist of any religion professes a belief in evolution, | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| f771971 | I saw two rare beetles & seized one in each hand; then I saw a third & new kind, which I could not bear to lose, so I popped the one which I held in my right hand into my mouth. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| e6dd3c7 | It all began when the Beagle's previous captain, Pringle Stokes, shot himself in the head and, after the bullet didn't kill him, died of gangrene. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| c70ab16 | Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or "Wise, Wise Man." | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 41ba987 | Your own species ends up with a name like that when you get to choose it | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 0059e7d | true randomness sometimes produces repetition, but when users heard the same song or songs by the same artist played back-to-back, they believed the shuffling wasn't random. And so the company made the feature "less random to make it feel more random," said Apple founder Steve Jobs.12 One" | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 9fd95c3 | It is dangerous to judge ability by short-term results. | Leonard Mlodinow | ||
| 46d9c00 | Did he put hands on you?" "Not quite. I think that was going to be next, but O'Brian drew him off. Before that, Clifton got pissy I wasn't telling him whatever he wanted to know and accused me of being an ass kisser. I responded that I have yet to have the privilege of kissing your ass, which I rate as the best--female variety--in the department." "That sounds like a pucker-up to me." Peabody snorted. "It was worth it. He went all puc.. | J.D. Robb | ||
| 7f712bb | Dari segala hal di dunia ini, yang tersulit adalah mengubah diri sendiri | inheritance-cycle quotes | Christopher Paolini | |
| 4a88cad | Sometimes I have thought that human misery goes far beyond human imagination,--imagination has its limits, and misery, like the vast seas, appears to be without end. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 6f60126 | It is all my fault! But the blind man when he stumbles over a stone, curses the stone, not the blindness that made him stumble. 17 | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 1d36c70 | What a strange power there is in woman! She comes in contact with a genius without portfolio, an exceptionally useless implement like me, and then, without any preaching on her part, he feels himself in duty bound to do all sorts of things he never dreamed of doing before. The | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 9ba4cba | How utterly unprofitable my life is! These continual searchings of my mind are leading me into the desert. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 533c2d6 | The evil genius bent upon wrecking my life had not taken in account one thing: a man crushed and utterly wretched cares less for himself than a happy one. In presence of that indifference fate becomes more or less powerless. I was and am still in that frame of mind that, if angry Fortuna came to me in person, and said: "Go to perdition," I should reply calmly: "Be it so,"--not out of sorrow for the loss of Aniela, but from mere indifference.. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 4a4fbd1 | The world has robbed me of my love, time has dried up hatred, and as the living individual must feel something, I live upon what remains to me. I must also say that he who feels and lives thus does not get a surfeit of happiness. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 10a1e77 | Bright, dreadful flashes of lightning rent the darkness and Kali's reply was drowned by a peal of thunder which shook heaven and the wilderness. Simultaneously a whirlwind broke out, tugged the boughs of the tree swept away in the twinkling of an eye the camp-fire, seized the embers, still burning under the ashes, and carried them with sheaves of sparks into the jungle. | wilderness | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 9fa115d | I still seem to hear Sniatynski's words: "Do not philosophize her away, as you have philosophized away your abilities and your thirty-five years of life." I know it leads to nothing, I know it is wrong, but I do not know how not to think. 13" | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| f24bb48 | Oj, pojdziewa w zyto, Bos dobra, kobieto! | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 663e010 | Svet't e izmamen, a zhivot't e iliuziia. Triabva da imash dostat'chno um za da razlichish priiatnite ot loshite iliuzii. | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 2ccd69c | More than once have I thought, Why does crime, even when as powerful as Caesar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble? I consider that to murder a brother, a mother, a wife, is a thing worthy of some petty Asiatic king, not a Roman Caesar; but if that position were mine, I should not write justifying letters to the Senate. But Nero writes. Nero i.. | insightful rome evil | Henryk Sienkiewicz | |
| 8e10879 | It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day | Henryk Sienkiewicz | ||
| 06ca6dc | Twenty-four percent of the patients treated with Saint-John's-wort had a "full response," 25 percent of the Zoloft patients, and 32 percent of the placebo group. "This study fails to support the efficacy of H perforatum in moderately severe depression," the investigators concluded, glossing over the fact that their drug had failed this test too.29" | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 9ac9fcc | Wallace Laboratories hired Salvador Dali to help stoke Miltown fever, paying the great artist $35,000 to create an exhibit at an AMA convention that was meant to capture the magic of this new drug. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 743fa36 | The evaluation of the merits of medical treatments for madness has always been a calculation made by doctors and, to a certain extent, by society as a whole. Does the treatment provide a method for managing disturbed people? That is the usual bottom line. The patient's subjective response to the treatment--does it help the patient feel better or think more clearly?--simply doesn't count in that evaluation. The "mad," in fact, are dismissed .. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 1c4f451 | The number of episodes, and it's a very rich literature [documenting this], is associated with more cognitive deficits," he said. "We are building more episodes, more treatment resistance, more cognitive dysfunction, and there is data showing that if you have four depressive episodes, unipolar or bipolar, it doubles your late-life risk of dementia. And guess what? That isn't even the half of it.... In the United States, people with depressi.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| f57aef7 | Today, according to the NIMH, bipolar illness affects one in every forty adults in the United States, and so, before we review the outcomes literature for this disorder, we need to try to understand this astonishing increase in its prevalence.9 Although the quick-and-easy explanation is that psychiatry has greatly expanded the diagnostic boundaries, that is only part of the story. Psychotropic drugs--both legal and illegal--have helped fuel.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| b78bd28 | In studies of first-episode bipolar patients, investigators at McLean Hospital, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Cincinnati Hospital found that at least one-third had used marijuana or some other illegal drug prior to their first manic or psychotic episode.10 This substance abuse, the University of Cincinnati investigators concluded, may "initiate progressively more severe affective responses, culminating in manic or depr.. | Robert Whitaker | ||
| 32ee953 | The three books were The Emperor's New Drugs: Exploding the Antidepressant Myth by Irving Kirsch; Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker; and Unhinged: The Trouble with Psychiatry--A Doctor's Revelations About a Profession in Crisis by Daniel Carlat. | Robert Whitaker |