The experiencing self lives its life continuously. It has moments of experience, one after the other.

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.

I would be wary of experts' intuition, except when they deal with something that they have dealt with a lot in the past.

Acquisition of skills requires a regular environment, an adequate opportunity to practice, and rapid and unequivocal feedback about the correctness of thoughts and actions.

We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.

Survival prospects are poor for an animal that is not suspicious of novelty.