Daniel Goldstein Quotes
Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
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I don't try to sugarcoat things, but I also think my books make positive statements about the people and values in small-town America.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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Typically, when you have a depressed individual, they feel hopeless. They feel miserable. Their mind is racing, their heart is pounding. They feel anxious. They feel exhausted yet they can't sleep.
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In the final analysis this congressional race is always going to be a close race, whether there's a presidential race or governor's race or not. But is this a better year? Yes, this would probably be a better year.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
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Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
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I wrote lots of pages. I showed what I wrote to Iowa friends, and they said, 'Good start.' That was discouraging because I thought it was almost done.
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Acting was a way of me finding myself, which I think is the case of a lot of actors, regardless of where they come from.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
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I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
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I'd experimented with so many different types of music. I had these folky songs I'd written and recorded, but something wasn't quite right.
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When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity.
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I want to be the top man in our sport. I want to be that guy everyone wants to see skate.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds... And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it.
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Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and opportunities and take steps to exploit advantages and avoid hazards.
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Maths is fundamentally a different process in education than it is in the real world. There is an insistence that we do maths by hand when most of it is done by computers. The idea that you have to do everything by hand before you can operate a computer is nonsense.
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Psychologists and economists love to talk about the notion of two selves: present self and future self. It's a nice way to explain the tendency to have one preference about the future, but a very different preference when the future becomes the present.
