“We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.”

“We live so far below the level of our divine possibilities.”

“Spending longer thinking about the problem before you dive in is likely to lead to higher levels of creativity in the final product.”

“Yet on some level we do know the truth. We know that meat production is a messy business, but we choose not to know just how messy it is. We know that meat comes from an animal, but we choose not to connect the dots. And often, we eat animals and choose not to know we're even making a choice. Violent ideologies are structured so that it is not only possible, but inevitable, that we are aware of an unpleasant truth on one level while being oblivious to it on another. Common to all violent ideologies is this phenomenon of knowing without knowing.”

“We all operate on different levels of awareness. Half the time I don't know what I'm doing.”

“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.”