Personal experience Quote by Charles Tilly

In the conduct of life we make use of deliberation to justify ourselves in doing what we want to do.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating…

— Leonardo da Vinci

Conscious choice is creative. Unconscious choice is destructive. That is how we end up living other people's lives.

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

Sometimes we deliberate - for example when we plan a long trip or - if we are not math wizards - when we solve…

— Nomy Arpaly

“Whether we do it consciously or subconsciously, we tend to organize our lives to display our identity as accurately as possible. Our lifestyle choices…

— Sheena Iyengar

“not get caught in their habitual patterning, to see thoughts for what they are, impersonal events, and instead be the knowing that awareness already…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The dominant social force that drives our thinking and our actions is the unconscious search and need for social proof.”

— Dragos Bratasanu

Among the types of thoughts that affect action, none is more central or pervasive than people's judgments of their capabilities to deal effectively with…

— Albert Bandura

Most social acts have to be understood in their setting, and lose meaning if isolated. No error in thinking about social facts is more…

— Solomon Asch

“The human tendency toward confirmatory thinking - all of us are bias to seek information that fits what we already believe.”

— Valerie Tarico

People regulate their level and distribution of effort in accordance with the effects they expect their actions to have. As a result, their behavior…

— Albert Bandura

Even if they don't know it consciously, people can feel when you are making them into a means to an end only. And people…

— Eckhart Tolle