Selective Thinking Quotations
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Psychological typeThe activity of consciousness is selective. Selection demands direction. ... (Psychological Types, The Extraverted Thinking Type, CW6, paragraph 588. The Portable ...
V (The Final Battle)
[While thinking of how to counterfeit a security pass for the hospital raid] ... Mike Donovan: Fortunately, selective breeding keeps their population to a minimum.
Bill Watterson
Calvin departs, and his mother is thinking to herself what was said Calvin ... Calvin: It's not denial. I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.
Hamid Dabashi
... to distinguish one economic unit of capital from another, civilizational thinking ... All this to momentarily manufacture consent, to secure a selective memory, and to ...
Wendell Berry
... hypocrisy has been inescapable because our opposition to violence has been selective ... In A Motel Parking Lot, Thinking Of Dr. Williams; Love the quick profit, the annual ...
Timothy Ferriss
... is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being overwhelmed is often as unproductive as doing nothing, and is far more unpleasant. Being selective ...
Neil Postman
What we are saying is that the "selective forgetting" is necessary for survival. ... Definitions, like questions and metaphors, are instruments for thinking.
Cat Stevens
Thinking about the good things to come And I believe it could be Something good has ... participants in the program wrote in and complained about the narrow and selective ...
George Henry Lewes
... his discovery of the great law, points in this direction; it was by always thinking ... in the aptitudes for selection, abstraction, and recombination: the fine selective ...
Dark Angel
Where does he get off thinking he can jack our power on bath night? Kendra: Says he ... dolphin, and this is what we get. Makes a pretty good argument for selective breeding ...
Starship Troopers
... in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking ... We can be selective, applying precisely the required amount of pressure at the ...
Stargate Universe
Be a little selective. Season 2 Intervention, Part 3 [2.01] Dannic: We were prepared ... Young: What the hell were they thinking? Telford: They didn't trust us. They thought ...
Garrison Keillor
Selective ignorance, a cornerstone of child rearing. You don't put kids under ... Beauty isn't worth thinking about; what's important is your mind. You don't want a ...
Erik Naggum
Unfortunately, nigh the whole world is now duped into thinking that silly fill-in ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning ...
Che Guevara
... blind and invisible to the majority, act upon the individual without his thinking ... that man is heir to and transforming him into an effective, violent, selective and ...
The Big Bang Theory
Anyway, I was thinking more of a bio-social exploration with a neuro-chemical overlay. ... Beverly: You know, both selective mutism and an inability to separate from one's ...
Daniel Dennett
This competition is the major selective force in the memosphere, and, just as in the ... Scientists sometimes deceive themsevles into thinking that philosophical ideas are ...
Philip K. Dick
The unconscious is selective, when it learns what to listen for. Chapter 12 (p. 200) ... Okay, Bruce, the manager said, and shut the cabin door behind him, thinking, I ...
Brandon Boyd
I've been thinking of combustication as a welcome vacation from the burdens of ... Bring your mouth and selective irreverence - We'll both see stars. Kill your doubt ...
Margaret Sanger
Recently it had cropped up again in the form of selective breeding. Chapter 30, "Now ... There is no doubt in the minds of all thinking people that the procreation of this ...
Stephen Jay Gould
In our course entitled "Thinking About Thinking," he had been presenting a lecture ... [Gould's] historical account is highly selective; he asserts the non-objectivity of ...
H. P. Lovecraft
In other words, to make the other fellow grasp, through skilled selective care in ... traditional and antiquarian reasons and because I had never done any real thinking ...
Neal Stephenson
Most of my colleagues go on backpacking trips when they have to do some thinking. ... It s a selective retirement, Richard explained, a retirement from boring shit.
Gilmore Girls/Season 4
Lorelai: It's anti-woman, it's gender-selective, it's "Oh, let's drink a beer and ... out of the house, and since I'm currently one of the women sitting home, thinking ...
List of misquotations
Notes: This is not a misquotation but a selective quotation, because the grammar of ... I know what you're thinking: 'Did he fire six shots, or only five?' Well, to tell ...
George Carlin
So at best the sanctity of life is kind of a selective thing. We get to choose which ... They don t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking.
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Confirmation bias (also called confirmatory bias or myside bias) is a tendency for people to favor information that confirms their preconceptions or hypotheses regardless of whether the information is true. As a result, people gather evidence and recall information from memory selectively, and interpret it in a biased way. The biases appear in particular for emotionally significant issues and for established beliefs. For example, in reading about gun control, people usually prefer sources that affirm their existing attitudes. They also tend to interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing position. Biased search, interpretation and/or recall have been invoked to explain attitude polarization (when a disagreement becomes more extreme even though the different parties are exposed to the same evidence), belief perseverance (when beliefs persist after the evidence for them is shown to be false), the irrational primacy effect (a stronger weighting for data encountered early in an arbitrary series) and illusory correlation (in which people falsely perceive an association between two events or situations).
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