Quotes by : Jonah Lehrer

...new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal....

...Why are corporations so fleeting?...Instead of imitating the freewheeling city, these businesses minimize....

Every creative journey begins with a problem. It starts with a feeling of frustration, the dull ache....

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential.....

...the imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.

The benefit of such horizontal interactions - people sharing knowledge across fields - is that it encourages....

Every creative story is different. And every creative story is the same. There was nothing. Now there....

Science has discovered that, like any work of literature, the human genome is a text in need of commentary,....

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.