Quotes
Authors
Daniel Gilbert

"Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if only it weren't blind, and then your brain fills in the scene with this information. That's right, it invents things, creates things, makes stuff up! It doesn't consult you about this, doesn't seek your approval. It just makes its best guess about the nature of the missing information and proceeds to fill in the scene..."

-- Daniel Gilbert

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“The music works by itself, but you can change the perception of it by the way you dress, the way you move, the things you say, the things you don't say. And when you realize that everything is staged, then nothing is staged. There's a kind of liberation to that.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Thereâ€™s no way to really preserve a person when theyâ€™ve gone and thatâ€™s because whatever you write down itâ€™s not the truth, itâ€™s just a story. Stories are all weâ€™re ever left with in our head or on paper: clever narratives put together from selected facts, legends, well edited tall tales with us in the starring roles”
“I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.”
“Irresponsible power is inconsistent with liberty, and must corrupt those who exercise it.”

Source : JOHN C. CALHOUN (1855). “REPORTS AND PUBLIC LETTERS”, p.29
“Beware of men who cry. It's true that men who cry are sensitive to and in touch with feelings, but the only feelings they tend to be sensitive to and in touch with are their own.”
“When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.”
“I understand abstract art as an attempt to feed imagination with a world built through the basic sensations of the eyes.”
“We never change. Neither our socks nor our masters nor our opinions, or we're so slow about it that it's no use. We were born loyal and that's what killed us! Soldiers free of charge, heroes for everyone else, talking monkeys, tortured words, we are the minions of King Misery...It's not a life.”

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