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“As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.”

Wells Ideas Motivation Poor Common Attitude Quality Evidence Crisis Everyday Dues Block Persistent Fear Of Failure Shortage Venues Jaded Fear Of Success Poor Quality Lackadaisical

Author:Robert Genn

“Until recently we’ve only been able to speculate about story's persuasive effects. But over the last several decades psychology has begun a serious study of how story affects the human mind. Results repeatedly show that our attitudes, fears, hopes, and values are strongly influenced by story. In fact, fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than writing that is specifically designed to persuade through argument and evidence.”

Writing Mind Humans Facts Stories Shows Seems Able Lasts Values Belief Results Attitude Fiction Study Psychology Effects Serious Evidence Argument Decades Human Mind Persuasive

Author:Jonathan Gottschall

“It ill becomes any of us to take the attitude that all evidence for God is false evidence, beneath consideration, simply by virtue of its being evidence for God, or even by virtue of its being outside the purview of science.”

Attitude Virtue Evidence Ill Consideration

Book:The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

Source: The Fire in the Equations: Science, Religion, and the Search for God

“Moreover, the attitude that one ought to believe such and such a proposition, independently of the question whether there is evidence in its favor, is an attitude which produces hostility to evidence and causes us to close our minds to every fact that does not suit our prejudices.”

Mind Believe Doe Facts Causes Attitude Produce Ought Evidence Prejudice Favors Suits Propositions Hostility

Book:Why I Am Not a Christian

Source: Why I Am Not a Christian

“Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives.”

Self Attitude Support Evidence Seeking Alternatives Liberalism Rejects Questioning Dogma Evident Propositions Plausible

Book:The Faith of a Liberal

Source: The Faith of a Liberal

“In their public statements (but not necessarily in their private statements), scientists express a generally negative attitude towards the UFO problem, and it is interesting to try to understand this attitude. Most scientists have never had the occasion to confront evidence concerning the UFO phenomenon.”

Trying Problem Interesting Attitude Evidence Negative Scientist Statements Occasions Phenomenon Ufo Negative Attitude

Author:Peter A. Sturrock