Gretchen Rubin

Habit allows us to go from 'before' to 'after,' to make life easier and better. Habit is notorious - and rightly so - for its ability to direct our actions, even against our will; but by mindfully shaping our habits, we can harness the power of mindlessness as a sweeping force for serenity, energy, and growth.

American Author

Tristan Harris

I actually worry that we're so mindlessly following the herd on privacy and data being the principle concerns when the actual things that are affecting the felt sense of your life and where your time goes, where your attention goes, where democracy goes, where teen mental health goes, where outrage goes.

American Activist

Ayn Rand

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

Russian Writer

Rosalind Wiseman

I think that giving mindless praise is ridiculous. But I understand why parents do it. They want their kids to feel good about themselves. But parents are never going to teach their children true, positive self esteem by praising everything they do.

American Educator

Wallace Shawn

I see myself as a citizen of the planet. Even as a child, I always found it mindless to root for your own team. I was puzzled by the fact that people said their own team was better than other teams simply because it was theirs.

American Actor

Clint Eastwood

You are always hoping that movie audiences are interested in characters and interested in story values rather than just mindless special effects. But you never know.

Iyanla Vanzant

Gossip is when you have a malice of intent or mindless, third-party conversation to someone about someone, something you haven't said to that someone.

Rosecrans Baldwin

For years, I've felt an obligation to harvest an animal, since all my life I've so mindlessly consumed them. But that was from the safety of my desk.

American Novelist

Vikas Swarup

People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.

Indian Novelist

Teju Cole

A mob is not, as is so often said, mindless. A mob is single-minded.

Nigerian Writer

Used for tasks that are so easy they can be boring or not challenging.

Simplicity

It may unintentionally belittle someone's work as less valuable or important.

Underestimation

Mindless can be used sarcastically to imply a task is actually complex.

Sarcasm

Indicates something is void of thoughtful content, often used for entertainment.

Emptiness

Can express a negative opinion about something not being worthwhile.

Criticize

Connotes actions taken without considering the consequences or feelings of others.

Disregard

Describes activities done out of habit without active thinking or awareness.

Habitual

When people perform tasks allowing them to mentally 'check out' or daydream.

Zoning Out

Often associated with doing tasks without emotional engagement or investment.

Detachment

 Mindlessly taking the first small step. Dehumanization of others. De-individuation of self. Diffusion of personal responsibility. Blind obedience to authority. Uncritical conformity to group norms. Passive tolerance of evil through inaction, or indifference. And it happens when you're in a new or unfamiliar situation.

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 to destroy mechanical inelasticity in people's attitudes and behavior. Someone doing the same thing over and over, or building up a false image of themself and the world, or not adapting to reality by just noticing the banana peel on the ground -- this is automatism, ignorance of one's own mindless rigidity,

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 strategies we observe they eat off of smaller plates they tend to eat fewer calories at every city instead of serving family style where you can sort of mindlessly eat as you're talking they serve at the counter put the food away and then bring it to the table they also have a three thousand-year-old addicts

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 When they're out of education, they do it on a computer. Just to be clear, I think computers can really help with this problem, actually make it more conceptual. Now, of course, like any great tool, they can be used completely mindlessly, like turning everything into a multimedia show,

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 we know can slow the course of AIDS. Hundreds of thousands of needless deaths in a country that has been plagued worse than any other by this disease. Please, don't tell me there are no consequences to these things. There are. There always are. Now, the most mindless epidemic

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 know there's a middle ground here no sharks are not mindless killing machines but you wouldn't walk up to a grizzly bear and give it a hug respect wild animals that doesn't mean fear them that doesn't mean try to wipe them out but give them some respect

Do Shark Stories Help...

 effective crocodiles have a reputation for being cold hard dinosaurs mindless killing machines but you can see that's far from the truth these animals are incredibly protective mothers I mean she has this instinct to look after her

Orinoco Crocodile...

 True communication increases understanding and creates a more caring and compassionate world. Once, I was perceived to be an inanimate object, a mindless phantom of a boy in a wheelchair. Today, I am so much more.

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 the true wolf the real wolf doesn't at all live up the stereotype they are not a mindless ruthless killer they are an incredibly caring doting family remember the most important thing to them is

Living Among Wolves PIPE...

 isn't going to be about the relentless and mindless pursuit of consumption growth. Investment has to be a different beast. Investment has to be, in the new economy, protecting and nurturing

Mindless

Not requiring or involving intelligence or thought.

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Lacking sense or meaning.

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Performed automatically without thought or care.

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Simplicity

Underestimation

Sarcasm

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