Autopilot Quotes

“Belief in God puts our life on autopilot. We know that someone up there is watching us and is in control. Losing our faith puts off the autopilot, we have to run it manually, and check if everything is alright for ourselves. No wonder religion has a wide appeal; most of us are lazy and would like a supreme being to be in charge”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, Pearls Of Eternity

“Get in the driving seat of your thoughts. You control them and they absolutely control your life.”
― Sam Owen, 500 Relationships And Life Quotes: Bite-Sized Advice For Busy People

“That's what I'd tell you if I thought you could be responsible for anything. But normal people don't choose on the basis of consequences, they just play roles. There's a picture in your head of a stern disciplinarian and you do whatever that picture would do, whether or not it makes any sense. A stern disciplinarian would order the students back to their rooms, even if there was a troll roaming the hallways. A stern disciplinarian would order students not to leave the Hall on pain of expulsion. And the little picture of Professor McGonagall that you have in your head can't learn from experience or change herself, so there isn't any point to this conversation. People like you aren't responsible for anything, people like me are, and when we fail there's no one else to blame.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky

“Autopilot is the enemy of boldness, because autopilot equals tunnel vision.

When you operate on autopilot, you reflexively do the same things, over and over, because you haven’t paused long enough to consider a more conscious choice. On autopilot, you can access just a narrow slice of the possibilities around you. In fact, the aperture is so narrow that you become literally blind to the options. You’re being carried by habit, by momentum, rather than going where you intentionally point your headlights. Hell, on autopilot, you don’t even need to check whether you even have headlights, because you’re not actually driving. You’re just drifting.

But when you get more intentional about the choices you make—no matter how small or seemingly inconsequential—the lens through which you view those choices begins to open up. The realm of what is possible widens and you can see just how many more chances life offers to align to your preferences and values, through your discernment, to your deeper being.

Change starts with acknowledging the life you’re living doesn’t line up with the life you want. From there, it’s about getting off autopilot. Then you can make decisions that honor and support that most holy part within you.”
― Becky Vollmer, You Are Not Stuck: How Soul-Guided Choices Transform Fear into Freedom

“Ahora los flujos de circulación de vehículos autónomos están regulados. No hay, no queda, ninguna emoción humana”
― Rubén Azorín Antón, La Torre Tesla (Halcón)

“If Tesla autopilot cars were airplanes, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) would have grounded them.”
― Steven Magee

“Most people are on tram lines leading straight to the grave. They live lives of spectacular mediocrity and conformity, and they are terrified of ever straying from the track. Yet the whole of real life lies away from the track.”
― Mark Romel, The Wasteland: America's Search for Redemption

“Choice implies consciousness - a high degree of consciousness. Without it, you have no choice.”
― Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“A marriage, or a relationship for that matter, that goes on an autopilot mode will land anywhere, since it has a life and mind of its own and not the owners.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“I regard Tesla Autopilot as the new Ford Pinto.”
― Steven Magee

“I was fortunate when my car needed to be replaced that automatic collision avoidance cars had become affordable.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“I think everything that happened in my life until now was by accident. I was never conscious. So many times I felt like when you are driving, and then you suffer temporary amnesia and you have no idea how you got there. Suddenly, I was here. I barely remember the way. Suddenly, I worked at this hospital. Suddenly, I lived in the suburbs. Suddenly, I was immersed in a million situations that I could not explain. Many like to think that we choose everything. This is an illusion. We do not choose where we are born, the house, the family, the name, the diseases, the intelligence and, the talent. So many things that are outside our zone of choice will influence our lives. To assume that we are on control is hypocrisy. Not that we do not have choices, we have them and we are responsible for them. But they are not an unlimited range. It is strange to analyze where I am today consciously. So I have often avoided doing so, I have preferred to ignore the hows and the whys.”
― S. Zuppardi, Não culpo as estrelas

“They were not struggling with themselves to play just one more round of a computer game or keep reading their Twitter feed. For them, sleep was not a battle of self-control. Instead, high “self-control” people performed better at the more habitual, automatic tasks than low “self-control” ones. High “self-controllers” were simply proficient at automating.”
― Wendy Wood, Good Habits, Bad Habits: The Science of Making Positive Changes That Stick

“The plan [Standard LifeScript] is so ingrained in our culture that many adults play it out without even realizing. They may 'wake up' later in their life and ask how they got there.”
― Jay Zigmont, The Childfree Guide to Life and Money: Make Your Finances Simple So Your Life Without Kids Can Be Amazing