“A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have always known this fact.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“People don't buy what you do; they buy why you do it. And what you do simply proves what you believe”
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
― Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
“Nothing in life is as important as you think it is, while you are thinking about it”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
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