The mind, once it has made a decision, filtered out the information that contradicts its preconceptions.Michael Lewis
In identifying the role of luck in life – especially in the lives of the successful – Amos did not consider himself in any big disagreement with Danny.Michael Lewis
The mind, when it doesn’t know what to think, substitutes feelings for thoughts.Michael Lewis
What you see is all there is.Michael Lewis
You are more likely to be a prisoner of your imagination than you are a slave of your environment.Michael Lewis
Optimism is a happiness magnet. If you stay positive, good things and good people will be drawn to you.Michael Lewis
The idea that the future is unpredictable is undermined every day by the ease with which the past is explained.Michael Lewis
Man is a deterministic device thrown into a probabilistic Universe.Michael Lewis
If you want to predict how people will behave, you look at people. It is by watching people that you learn how to predict people.Michael Lewis
People do not choose between things. They choose between descriptions of things.Michael Lewis
The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story the mind has managed to construct.Michael Lewis
The problem with pick-and-shovel work is not that it is uninteresting but that it is hard.Michael Lewis
Imagining the future is just another form of memory.Michael Lewis
Intuition works less often than it seems to.Michael Lewis