Leonard Mlodinow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Voice #Usual #Raises
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.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Weather #World #Way
Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Communication #Our Words #Fundamentals
Subliminal is about how we misinterpret our behavior because were unaware of what our unconscious minds are doing.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Mind #Behavior #Subliminal
Social rejection doesn't just cause emotional pain; it affects our physical being.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Pain #Emotional #Rejection
A failure doesn't mean you are unworthy, nor does it preclude success on the next try.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Mean #Trying #Doe
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that weÂ´re the captain of our own sould, and weÂ´re in charge, and itÂ´s a very scary feeling when we are not. In fact, thatÂ´s what psychosis is - the feeling of detachment from reality and that you are not in control, and thatÂ´s a very frightening feeling for anyone."
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Reality #Psychosis #Ideas
When we are in the grasp of illusion - or, for that matter, whenever we have a new idea - instead of searching for ways to prove our ideas wrong, we usually attempt to prove them correct. Psychologists call this the confirmation bias, and it presents a major impediment of our ability to break free from the misinterpretation of randomness.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Ideas #Matter #Way
What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Taken #Opportunity #Play
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

#Giving Up #Successful
Research suggests when it comes to understanding our feelings, we humans have an odd mix of low ability and high confidence.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Understanding #Feelings #Research
We judge people and initiatives by their results, and we expect events to happen for good, understandable reason. But our clear visions of inevitability are often only illusions.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#People #Judging #Vision
We believe that when we choose anything, judge a stranger and even fall in love, we understand the principal factors that influenced us. Very often nothing could be further from the truth. As a result, many of our most basic assumptions about ourselves, and society, are false.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Falling In Love #Believe #Judging
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which time can end in a black hole, and conscious beings can evolve from a soup of minerals.
-- Leonard Mlodinow

#Beautiful #Black #Soup

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