New research shows that emotions have a separate system of nerve pathways, through the limbic system to the cortex, allowing emotional signals to avoid conscious control.
Robert E. OrnsteinIf you spend too much time being like everybody else, you decrease your chances of coming up with something different.
Robert E. OrnsteinHuman inventiveness is overwhelming human adaptiveness. Our ability to judge lags behind our ability to create.
Robert E. OrnsteinThis duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind versus intuition. The split between the conscious mind and the unconscious. There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our hearts, or intuition, another.
Robert E. Ornstein