Mindlessness Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our…
— Santiago Ramon y Cajal
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Films to the degree that they glorify mindlessness and short attention span they are bad, to the degree that they encourage empathy with people not…
— Roger Ebert
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Our democracy, our culture, our whole way of life is a spectacular triumph of the blah. Why not have a political convention without politics to…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the…
— Nathaniel Branden
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Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers…
— Ellen Langer
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We resist mindlessness of any kind. Again, drugs, like television, are fine for other people. The more enslaved they are, the easier it is for…
— Blanche Barton
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No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.
— Karen Tei Yamashita
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Virtually all of life's ills boil down to mindlessness. If you can understand someone else's perspective, then there's no reason to be angry at them,…
— Ellen Langer
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Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling…
— Clive Barker
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I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.
— Paula Fox
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One reason why we fail to hear God speak is that we are not attentive. We suffer from what might be called 'spiritual mindlessness.'
— John Ortberg
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Moreover, the eye contains a big flaw: the retina is inside out. Why would an almighty designer do such a thing? No intelligent designer, ..…
— Daniel Dennett
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Mom had just gotten back from Sydney, and she had brought me an immense, surpassingly blue butterfly, Papilio ulysses, mounted in a frame filled with…
— Audrey Niffenegger
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Action without thought is mindlessness, and thought without action is hypocritical.
— Ayn Rand
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The hazing experience and then the subsequent participation in the group forces its members to maintain the status quo and traditions at all costs. It…
— Rosalind Wiseman
Who Wrote These Mindlessness Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Mindlessness Quotes as follows: