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.Daniel Goldstein
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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.
Tawni O'Dell -
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
Halston Sage -
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.
Balaji Srinivasan -
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.
Dale Archer -
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.
Baron Hill -
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
Bai Ling -
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.
A. S. Byatt -
I had self-esteem issues into my early 20s.
Adam Lambert -
Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light.
Damon Wayans -
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.
Karen Bender -
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.
Eddie Marsan
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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.
N. T. Wright -
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
Vance Packard -
I think definitely people know me from playing creeps and weirdos, and I'm definitely looking to expand my range.
Rainn Wilson -
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.
Walter Isaacson -
As a young boy, scouting gave me a confidence and camaraderie that is hard to find in modern life.
Bear Grylls -
No, I think I used to be pretty superstitious about certain things, but I'm really not anymore. As long as I have everything is in order and I have my things as far as the match goes, shooting I'm fine. But I really don't.
Nancy Johnson
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It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.
T. S. Eliot -
I'm a pop princess at heart. Pop is about distilling what you want to say and making it easy. And the way I write isn't about making things easy. It's a weird juxtaposition.
Lorde -
The birds laugh loud and long together When Fashion's followers speed away At the first cool breath of autumn weather. Why, this is the time, cry the birds, to stay! When the deep calm sea and the deep sky over Both look their passion through sun-kissed space, As a blue-eyed maid and her blue-eyed lover Might each gaze into the other's face.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.
Prince Andrew -
Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.
Joanne Rowling -
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.
Daniel Goldstein