Leonard Mlodinow Quotes
Top 49 wise famous quotes and sayings by Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Leonard Mlodinow on Wise Famous Quotes.
People intuitively realize that there is strength in numbers and take comfort in the company of others, especially in times of anxiety or need.
By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.
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.
Other studies support this result, showing that doubling the size of a container of snack food increases consumption by 30 to 45 percent.15 I
To the voters in 1960, the name Nikita Khrushchev carried great emotional significance. To these students, he sounded like just another hockey player.
We all know that looks matter, and modern politicians have always assumed that their battles are decided on both substance and image.
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.
You're wasting your time," he said. "You don't learn how to discover things by reading books on it. And psychology is a bunch of bullshit.
The mythical stories we tell about our heroes are always more romantic and often more palatable than the truth.
Though you are unaware of it, when you run cool wine over your tongue, you don't just taste its chemical composition; you also taste its price.
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.
We all understand that genius doesn't guarantee success, but it's seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so.
Random events often look like nonrandom events, and in interpreting human affairs we must take care not to confuse the two.
'Subliminal' is about how we misinterpret our behavior because we're unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.
I think the fun of following the movie box office and stocks is very similar to the fun of sports - all three combine passion and unpredictability.
I wouldn't have to drop out of academia and take a more lucrative position waiting tables at the faculty club.
My father had drawn number 3,004 in a death lottery in which German precision trumped Nazi brutality.
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
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.
I believe in a kind of God. I think all scientists, in a way, believe in a certain God, in a certain order of nature.
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.
We unwittingly judge products by their boxes, books by their covers, and even corporation's annual reports by their nice glossy finish.
If a lecture was not interesting or proceeded too slowly or too quickly, they would jeer and become rowdy.
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in the society who come out on the bottom.
The attacks on global warming are no different than the attacks the cigarettes companies used to use to say that cigarettes don't cause cancer.