Tana French Quotes

WHAT a person thinks is determined by HOW a person thinks.

Where instinct fails, intellect must venture.

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

People don't know what they are doing most of the time. They don't know what they want. It's only in 'the movies' that they know what their problems are and have game plans to deal with them.

The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.

The best types of problems are those that seem harder at first than when you think about it.

Prediction by analogy -creativity - is so pervasive we normally don't notice it.

Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

We're born with the desire, but we don't really know how to choose. We don't know what our taste is, and we don't know what we are seeing.

If most people are not willing to see the difficulty, this is mainly because, consciously or unconsciously, they assume that it will be they who will settle these questions for the others, and because they are convinced of their own capacity to do this.

My research career has been devoted to understanding human decision-making and problem-solving processes. The pursuit of this goal has led me into the fields of political science, economics, cognitive psychology, computer science and philosophy of science, among others.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

An investment said to have an 80% chance of success sounds far more attractive than one with a 20% chance of failure. The mind can't easily recognize that they are the same.

People and nations act on the basis of what they feel rather than what is real.

I think that we're pattern-seeking animals, and what we like best is a story where everything fits together, where there's no puzzle pieces left over.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Life's so much based on instincts and quick decisions, and people don't know what they're looking for.

Whatever I see, I trust my eyes, trust my reads, trust the guys running routes and kind of just let it go.

Sometimes one must make extended conclusions from limited data.

When in doubt...shoe it out.

But you want to see shapes; you want to see stories, so you pick them out of the sky.

The line between what is known scientifically and what has to be assumed in order to support knowledge is impossible to draw. Memory itself is an internal rumour.

I'm in no position to hand down any advice," he said, "but there's a rule I follow when I don't know what to do." "A rule?" "If you have to choose between something that has form and something that doesn't, go for the one without form. That's my rule. Whenever I run into a wall I follow that rule, and it always works out. Even if it's hard going at the time.

People don't like uncertainty, and their minds are tools for making sense of the world, even when the world is senseless.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.