Richard Wiseman Quotes

#1. Researcher Richard Wiseman, in his article "The Luck Factor," says that if you are an apple picker and you keep coming back to the same trees every day, eventually you're going to run out of fruit.

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#2. Researchers discovered that people who have just consumed caffeinated drinks were more likely to be swayed by arguments about various controversial topics.55 In short, good evidence that there really is no such thing as a free lunch or an innocent cup of coffee.

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#3. Unlucky people are stuck in routines. When they see something new, they want no part of it. Lucky people always want something new. They're prepared to take risks and relaxed enough to see the opportunities in the first place.

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#4. Materialism takes root in early childhood, and is driven mainly by low self-esteem.

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#5. Grin and bear it! Remember your heritage! You're a Japanese law-abiding straight! You grin and bear it until your Zimmer frame buckles and your drinking water is mercury oxide, and our whole country is one coast-to-coast parking lot.

David Mitchell

#6. We do not love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we do them.

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#7. The message is that people are more likely to agree with you when they have already said something positive.

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#8. Lucky people create, notice, and act upon the chance opportunities in their lives.

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#9. You know, in this job we really need someone who is responsible." The man thinks for a moment, then replies, "I am perfect for you. In my last job lots of things went badly wrong, and they always said that I was responsible.

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#10. Hugely enjoyable and insightfulGosling has produced the perfect combination of rigorous research and lightness of prose to create a book that will transform every reader into a super snooper.

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#11. When people can afford necessities in life, an increase in income dones not result in a significantly happier life.

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#12. Happiness doesn't just flow from success; it actually causes it.

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#13. When it comes to happiness, remember, it is experiences that represent really good value for the money.

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#14. To ensure a well-motivated participant, Pfungst rewarded Clever Hans with a small piece of bread, carrot or sugar each time he responded (interestingly, this same procedure still works well with most undergraduate students today).

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#15. Our beliefs do not sit passively in our brains waiting to be confirmed or contradicted by incoming information. Instead, they play a key role in shaping how we see the world.

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#16. Compared to individuals, groups tend to be more dogmatic, better able to justify irrational actions, more likely to see their actions as highly moral, and more apt to form stereotypical views of outsiders.

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#17. I am not a fan of Sigmund Freud because his theories are not testicle.

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#18. Thanks to our capacity to adapt to ever greater fame and fortune, yesterday's luxuries can soon become today's necessities and tomorrow's relics.6

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#19. Because remote viewing is such an outlandish claim that will revolutionise the world, we need overwhelming evidence before we draw any conclusions. Right now we don't have that evidence.

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#20. Napping is often seen as a form of laziness. Nothing could be further from the truth. Hundreds of experiments have demonstrated the enormous benefits associated with even the shortest of sleeps, and so it is vital that you make napping part of your daily routine.

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#21. Visualize Yourself Doing, Not Achieving.

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#22. The results from both studies clearly indicated that in terms of short- and long-term happiness, buying experiences made people feel better than buying products.

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#23. (we had added an unruly pug somewhere along the way)

Duff McKagan

#24. Luck is not a magical ability or a gift from the gods. Instead, it is a way of thinking and behaving.

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#25. The concept of luck is very straightforward. Some people notice opportunities and others don't.

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#26. We are far more like somebody watching ourselves than somebody in charge of ourselves.

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#27. Destiny's Gate is filled with darkness and light. If you identify with the darkness, this is a good sign as we all have to embrace the darkness within us in order to heal and be brought into the Light as One.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#28. As we continue toward the fifth secret technique of psychics, I have a gut feeling that you are the sort of person that lets your heart rule your head, can sometimes be too impulsive for your own good, and have recently come into contact with a goat. Rest assured you are not the only one.

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#29. Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

Ellen Sussman

#30. There are days when any electrical appliance in the house, including the vacuum cleaner, seems to offer more entertainment possibilities than the television set.

Harriet Van Horne

#31. Albert Einstein once said, Sit with a beautiful woman for an hour and it seems like a minute, sit on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour - that's relativity.

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#32. I agree that by the standards of any other area of science that remote viewing is proven..

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