Quotes from Blink (on going)

Predicting divorce, like tracking Morse Code operators, is pattern recognition.

In negative sentiment override states, people draw lasting conclusions about each other.
It's really hard to change those states, and those states determine whether when one party tries to repair things, the other party sees that as repair or hostile manipulation.

"Some go up, some go down" ... "But once they start going down, toward negative emotion, 94% will continue going down. They start on a bad course and they can't correct it. I don't think of this as just a slice in time. It's an indication of how they view their whole relationship."

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.

In order to make somebody laugh, you have to be interesting, and in order to be interesting, you have to do something mean. Comedy comes out of anger, and interesting comes out of angry; otherwise there is no conflict.

Our world requires that decisions be sourced and footnoted, and if we say how we feel, we must be prepared to elaborate on why we feel that way.

We need to respect the fact that it is possible to know without knowing why we know and accept that - sometimes - we're better off that way.

They suggest that what we think of as free will is largely an illusion: much of the time, we are simply operating on automatic pilot, and the way we think and act - and how well we think and act on the spur of the moment - are a lot more susceptible to outside influences than we realize.

We don't want to stand there endlessly talking through our options. Sometimes we're better off if the mind behind the locked door makes our decisions for us.

Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions - we can alter the way we thin-slice - by change the experiences that comprise those impressions.