Steven Patrick Morrissey Quotes

We have no reason to expect the quality of intuition to improve with the importance of the problem. Perhaps the contrary: high-stake problems are likely to involve powerful emotions and strong impulses to action.

… people are far from acting generally according to the dictates of their interests, but oftener in consequence of their passions, though it may even prove injurious to their interests.

When a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune: so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.

It is widely accepted and understood that consumer decisions are as much influenced by emotional attachments to a product or service as by factors like price and performance. So why is it that when it comes to most aspects of human transportation, the world still seems to believe people are rational machines?

A woman's head is always influenced by her heart, but a man's heart is always influenced by his head.

People in this world are not often logical.

The brain is where most people really screw up.

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires.

People react not very wisely sometimes.

I get letters from people who say, 'What have you got against women?' What could I possibly have against women? I've married three of them.

That's why I want you there, he said. You're unpredictable, and that can be the difference between success and failure. Most people make decisions in anger, fear, love, or obligation. You make decisions to irritate people.

By asking the question How can I afford it? your brain is put to work.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

The thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?

Fortunately for mankind the brain in a life of action turns more to the matter in hand than to conjuring up the chances of the future.

If you choose, you can influence every aspect of your brain, and therefore every aspect of your life.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

People with Tourettes.....What makes them tick?

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgement to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

I think it is undeniably true that the human brain must work in models. The trick is to have your brain work better than the other person's brain because it understands the most fundamental models- ones that will do most work per unit.

It is impossible to live without brains, either one's own or borrowed.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

Eventually scientists will discover something that explains ghosts, just like they discovered electricity, which explained lightning, and it might be something about people's brains, or something about the earth's magnetic field, or it might be some new force altogether. And then ghosts won't be mysteries. They will be like electricity and rainbows and nonstick frying pans.

If desire did not dim the brain, nobody would ever get married, drunk, or fat. ~Val