Daniel Kahneman Quotes

Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.

Daniel Kahneman

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Many of the songs on Undertow were written at the time Opiate came out.

Adam Jones
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- Songs
- Out
I find it quite boring when people do things that are very considered and thought through. I like things best when they're just done because they're fun or beautiful, or simply because they are what that one person wanted to do at that one time.

Edie Campbell
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- Time
- Done
I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.

Gary Hamel
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- Time
- World
It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

Naomi Klein
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- Long
- Writing
I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.

Baba Kalyani
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- Family
- Business
If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.

D. A. Pennebaker
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- Problems