"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."

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Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

Maria Konnikova

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“I'm not worried about Instagram.”

Source : "Rihanna's alleged Instagram comment claims Knicks’ J.R. Smith parties too hard during playoffs" by Peter Botte, www.nydailynews.com. May 17, 2013.
“Everybody who's ever done anything bad to me, anything that ever went wrong, I try to take it out on somebody-every game. It's like when you see Michael Jordan's highlights and your hair sits up on your arms? I'm like that the whole game.”
“I feel like people start to believe things that people say about them and start to think they're really important. If you have a family that is down to earth and cool, I don't see how you can be like that.”
“I'm in an absolute frenzy towards doing as many things as I can that I want to do today. The rest can wait till tomorrow, next week, if I'm around we'll take a look.”
“I never played with a runner in my entire life, even in schools, because only I know where the ball is going and how hard, when I hit the ball, something my runner will never know about.”
“Why has no religion this command before all others: Thou shalt work?”
“To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.”
“I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.”

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