Habits Quote by Alan S. Blinder

In all our quest of greatness, like wanton boys, whose pastime is their care, we follow after bubbles, blown in the air.

— John Webster

I'm really interested in self-deception. Really interested in how people live in bubble universes. How people can fail to see the seemingly obvious.

— Errol Morris

Bubbles. Bubbles. My bubbles. -Bubbles

— Finding Nemo

I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch]…

— Ann Patchett

In the developed world, hundreds of millions of us now face the bizarre problem of surfeit. Yet our brains, instincts, and socialized behavior are…

— Martha Beck

Mimicking the herd invites regression to the mean.

— Charlie Munger

“it’s human behavior, human social behavior, and in many cases abnormal human social behavior. And it is indeed a mess, a subject involving brain…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

— Paul Rusesabagina

“We are endowed with genes which code out our reaction to beavers and otters, maybe our reaction to each other as well. We are…

— Lewis Thomas

“[It] wants you to believe there are foreseeable trends and forces. When in fact it's all random phenomena. You apply mathematics and other disciplines,…

— Don DeLillo

“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without…

— David DiSalvo

“Eternity for bubbles proves at last a senseless bargain.”

— William Cowper