Unconscious Decision Making Quotes

But I now think what I was doing, in a completely unconscious way, was getting off the turf where my husband and I might be rivals. We were both working in fiction... so I look back and I see that I consciously vacated the contested ground.

Our guts can really mislead us. Sometimes, what we think of as our gut is something else, like an outside influence. If you're going to buy an apartment and it smells of freshly baked bread, you're more likely to want to buy it.

Research suggests that people are typically unaware of the reasons why they are doing what they are doing, but when asked for a reason, they readily supply one.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

I registered Democrat because my parents did. They were, we were. There was no thinking behind it.

Our unconscious is really good at quick decision-making - it often delivers a better answer than more deliberate and exhaustive ways of thinking.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

We're writing movies that people buy without thinking about it.

Back then, it's weird, because I wasn't consciously thinking about it and I think that's why the doors opened and I had the opportunity. It was a big shift and I realized that you can plan and think your life is going somewhere, but you also have to surrender to what opportunities present themselves and really go for those as well.

I strongly believe that many of the best decisions are made on gut instinct.

Our blindest impulses become evidence of perspicacity when they fall in with the course of events.

The unconscious is much smarter than the conscious.

Behavioral economics can explain some things, but it's hard to explain a lot of the underlying processes that generate these decisions, much less some of these unconscious things that we don't have a handle on at all.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

We are very influenced by completely automatic things that we have no control over, and we don't know we're doing it.

Even though things happen by accident, you also unconsciously choose things that help you.

We perceive, we remember our experiences, we make judgments, we act - and in all of these endeavors, we are influenced by factors that we aren't aware of.

Everyone has a subconscious and automatic preference of this over that. Once you're aware of that, you can take steps to change.

If you don’t think about it, it’s right.

Men govern themselves by instinct much more than by laws and intellect.

I think your subconscious knows far more than your conscious, so I trust it.

And suddenly I realised that I was no longer driving the car consciously. I was driving it by a kind of instinct, only I was in a different dimension.

Most people probably don't even know what toothpaste they buy; they just recognize the box on the shelf.

I do a lot of things intuitively. I'm not often consciously aware of what I'm doing. It's like in a dream: There's something going on that's powerful but you don't know exactly why.