Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

Daniel Kahneman

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Death
  • Man
  • Words

• One works in one's laboratory - one's chaotic laboratory - with students and colleagues, doing what one most wants to do - then all this happens! It is overwhelming.

  

  Haldan Keffer Hartline
  • Doing
  • Students
  • Colleagues

• For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Time
  • Service
  • Luxury

• I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. To romanticise it and glorify it and give it a soundtrack and a rhythm.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Moment
  • Slow

• A fellow doesn't last long on what he has done. He has to keep on delivering.

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Last

• We don't have truth delivered to us very often, especially in this very commercialized world.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • World
  • Truth
  • Often

• If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.

  

  Ice T
  • People
  • Need
  • Gun

• I've reached a place with my work where I'm ready to concentrate more on life.

  

  Dana Delany
  • Life
  • Work
  • Place

• I can work 24 hours a day and not have it bother me.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Work
  • Me
  • Day

• It broke out with matchless fury. The rapid vehement fire. Him we praise above the earth, Fire, the fiery meteor of the dawn. Above the high gale, Higher than every cloud. Great his animal.

  

  Taliesin
  • Great
  • High
  • Earth

• In times of old, as we are told, When men more child-like at the feet Of Jesus sat, than now, A chivalry was known more bold Than ours, and yet of stricter vow, Of worship more complete.

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Men
  • Jesus
  • Bold

• My mother is probably the wisest person I've ever known. She's not schooled, she's not well read. But she has a philosophy of life that makes well-read people seem like morons.

  

  Gene Klein Kiss
  • People
  • Life
  • She

• How often we should stop in the pursuit of folly, if it were not for the difficulties that continually beckon us onwards.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Stop

• Certain characters are sticky, especially if they help you grow up as a person, I think.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Up
  • Help

• You can fool a person into going to see a movie with a good trailer.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Good
  • Movie
  • Fool

• I took business and economics courses. More than anything, I learned the proper steps and the things that need to be outlined. You have to keep your books: how much money you made, how much money you're spending, what you profited, and what you're gonna need for expenses.

  

  Karen Civil
  • Money
  • Business

• Of course creativity is a mystery. We don't know what drives it or what constitutes it. It's one of those things, like genius, you know it when you see it but it's impossible to define.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Creativity

• I've never, ever in my life enjoyed playing live the way I am now.

  

  Richard Marx
  • Life
  • Live

• The message of some churches today seems to be, "Only sing if it appeals to your sense of style, or your demographic." Yet when we look at heaven, we see that every tribe and every nation will sing together.

  

  Keith Getty
  • Together
  • Church
  • Heaven

• Hollywood looks backwards and tries to repeat. And we really try not to do that. We don't always succeed, but I really think that what we try and do is different.

  

  Jason Blum
  • Different

• A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, "You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Political

• I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

  

  Daniel Kahneman