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

• I like fishing. Not actual fishing - I like the peace and quiet of being at sea. It's different.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Different
  • Peace
  • Sea

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

  

  Carl Hubbell
  • Long
  • Done
  • Last

• When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Faith
  • Stars
  • Generation

• 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 took a break after 'Confessions.' I was real picky. And then I suddenly realized I hadn't worked in a year. And I was sort of, like, not really happy. I think people are happier when they have structure, you know? You realize that as you get older. You have to have rituals and structure.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
  • Real
  • Happy

• 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

• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  

  Lawyer
  • Lawyer

• 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

• I gained this new sense of control over my love life because when I called myself a 'man repeller,' you assumed that being single is my choice. I'm man-repelling because that's how I want to dress. I'm not single because no men like me. I'm single because I choose fashion over a relationship.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Life
  • Men
  • Control

• I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.

  

  Peter Cullen
  • People
  • Live
  • Character

• I only tend to think of the week ahead, to keep my eye on the ball and question whether a full stop is in the right place. It's easy to get distracted by the wrong things. If you start thinking of grand gestures, it's going to be a lot of hot air. You have to be logical. The theatre is a very logical place.

  

  Lee Hall
  • Thinking
  • Stop
  • Question

• Bettie Page was number one. I have never known another model who had better knowledge of her body or how to work with it to make it look so good. Her skin was perfect, no blemishes. Perfect nose, beautiful straight teeth, and gleaming, shiny black hair that was always in place, always.

  

  Bunny Yeager
  • Work
  • Body
  • Model

• My father (Danny Thomas) used to tell me there are two kinds of people, the takers and the givers. 'The takers sometimes eat better,' he would say, 'but the givers always sleep better.'

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • People
  • Father
  • Giving

• I have always emphasized the willingness to discard.

  

  Daniel Kahneman