Craig Detweiler Quotes
What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
Quotes to Explore
-
I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.
-
Porridge and the urban lifestyle don't mix well.
-
I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
-
When Van Halen started out, there was no path to fame. We just played what we liked. Even today it always comes down to the simplicity of rock and roll.
-
I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
-
Then during the mission itself, I used the space shuttle's robot arm to release a satellite into orbit.
-
I'm not sure the least educated members of the population are missing out on the advances in medical technology as much as they are adopting harmful behavioral habits that shorten their life.
-
You know, I've always thought that it would be really funny if somebody made a romantic comedy where absolutely everything went well from beginning to end.
-
A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station.
-
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child is tortured by the thought of a state of existence in which it would live in a candy store and have two stomachs.
-
There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour - people saying it is childish and pretending it is beneath them - but there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.
-
I'm pretty relaxed with my skincare. I really like two brands: Tata Harper and Ren, which is a natural skincare line. I use lotions, and I use Dove soap.
-
I do not say anything from jealousy.
-
Billy not only had a distinguished career in the Legislature, but he also has great business instincts and has done exceedingly well making investment decisions in both stocks and private ventures such as real estate.
-
When you're writing, you think: How does intimacy happen in the work? You don't know who your reader is, woman, man, child, black person, Asian, who knows?
-
We all enjoy a magic show, but we don't demand a Q&A afterward explaining how it was done.
-
The employers cannot carry on industry nor accumulate profits if they have not got the good will of the workers or their acquiescence in carrying on such industry.
-
I like to keep a calm set.
-
Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.
-
Cloture is simply cutting off debate.
-
It is never my custom to use words lightly. If twenty-seven years in prison have done anything to us, it was to use the silence of solitude to make us understand how precious words are and how real speech is in its impact on the way people live and die.
-
If a man went simply by what he saw, he might be tempted to affirm that the essence of democracy is melodrama.
-
Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.
-
What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
