The pitch, timbre, volume, speed, and cadence of your voice, the speed with which you speak, and even the way you modulate pitch and loudness, are all hugely influential factors in how convincing you are and how people judge your… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
In all our perceptions, from vision to hearing, to the pictures we build of people's character, our unconscious mind starts from whatever objective data is available to us - usually spotty - and helps to shape and construct the more… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Science has revealed a universe that is vast, ancient, violent, strange, and beautiful, a universe of almost infinite variety and possibility one in which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
I always liked movies, so I started writing for Hollywood, but my day job was physics. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“At the University of Bologna, there was another bizarre twist on what is the norm today: students fined their professors for unexcused absence or… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“The first step in battling the illusion of control is to be aware of if. But even then it is difficult, once we think… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
You have to have passion for a subject to write about it. You can't expect your readers to feel any excitement if it's nothing… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
We routinely participate in elaborate nonverbal exchanges even when we are not consciously aware of doing so. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Touch seems to be such an important tool for enhancing social cooperation and affiliation that we have evolved a special physical route along which… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“In fact, when some wedding guest inevitably complains about the seating arrangements, you might point out how long it would have taken you to… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
Says Bargh: "We all hold dear idea that we´re the captain of our own sould, and we´re in charge, and it´s a very scary… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
