Top 19 Maria Konnikova Quotes
#1. I walk through the old yellow sunlight
to get to my kitchen table
the poem about me
lying there with the books
in which I am listed
among the dead and future Dylans
Leonard Cohen
#2. He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.
Jonathan Renshaw
#3. When the mind is possessed of reality, it feels tranquil and joyous even without music or song, and it produces a pure fragrance even without incense or tea.
Hong Zicheng
#4. The most powerful mind is the quiet mind. It is the mind that is present, reflective, mindful of its thoughts and its state. It doesn't often multitask, and when it does, it does so with a purpose.
Maria Konnikova
#5. Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.
Shaun Roundy
#6. How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?
Maria Konnikova
#7. Oh dear gods. I think my underwear just fell off." "Nicole," Tina hissed. "Keep your comments to yourself! Be a respectable fucking lady, for fuck's sake!
T.J. Klune
#8. He believed he was dead and used to rage at his wife because she wouldn't bury him. I'd a-done it.
L.M. Montgomery
#9. Lessen selfishness and restrain desires.
Laozi
#10. As children, we are remarkably aware. We absorb and process information at a speed that we'll never again come close to achieving ... we are learning about our world and its possibilities.
Maria Konnikova
#11. London is my favorite place in the world. I love London. I think it has the best of L.A. and New York in one, and I have a really great friend there.
Emma Roberts
#12. But when we observe, we are forced to pay attention. We have to move from passive absorption to active awareness. We have to engage.
Maria Konnikova
#13. Conscience is what? It is putting together a moral act and a moral ideal, and measuring the act by the ideal. It is putting this moral act which you do alongside the eternal laws of God, and seeing how it stands by those laws of God.
Lyman Abbott
#14. We're going to keep building the party until we're hunting Democrats with dogs.
Phil Gramm
#15. When we are forced to do multiple things at once, not only do we perform worse on all of them but our memory decreases and our general well-being suffers a palpable hit.
Maria Konnikova
#16. Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive.
Maria Konnikova
#18. Holmes serves as an ideal model of how we can learn to see and think better.
Maria Konnikova
#19. All too often, when it comes to our own minds, we are surprisingly mindless. We sail on, blithely unaware of how much we are missing, of how little we grasp of our own thought process - and how much better we could be if only we'd taken the time to understand and to reflect.
Maria Konnikova
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