Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

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• Warren and I are friends, but working with him had been difficult.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Friends
  • Difficult
  • Him

• I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Audience
  • Started
  • Pilot

• I'm a terrible actor. I would suck in films! The only way I would do well is if I was playing myself, which is what I did in my career.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Myself
  • Actor

• More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Men
  • Money
  • Value

• I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Music
  • Job
  • College

• If you can make the song a soundtrack to what you're living at the time, I think that's the most important part of a song.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Time
  • Important
  • Song

• I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Slavery

• I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Animal
  • Create
  • Meat

• People with children will know this: when the childcare is over, it's over on the dot. You immediately have to go into child mode; there's no down time.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Children

• I don't care what color the parents are. I don't care if it's a giraffe and a fish living together. If they're raising children who believe they're honored and loved, that's all that's important.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Believe
  • Important
  • Children

• Torvalds, Linus (2012-10-11). Linus Torvalds - Slashdot Interview. Retrieved on 2012-10-11.

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.

  

  Chris Hayes
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • Improvement

• The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

  

  Ellen Willis
  • Culture

• Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

  

  Bob Barr

• I always loved bulbs, and I use light a lot in my shows. In my office in Paris, I have 300 bulbs.

  

  Alexandre de Betak
  • Light
  • Paris

• Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

  

  Dave Gahan Depeche Mode
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I really feel like sometimes I'll write these songs, and I'll just think, 'You know that couldn't have come from me alone.' I believe that God inspires us. I believe that He gives us gifts and talents, and it's up to us to develop them and choose what we do with them.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • Up
  • God
  • Believe

• There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.

  

  Jesse Ventura

• I told my children, 'I don't like children.'

  

  Betty Catroux
  • Children

• As far as other instrumentalists, I used to love mellow sax players like Paul Desmond. I love piano.

  

  Boz Scaggs The Steve Miller Band

• On the breast of her gown, in fine red cloth, surrounded with an elaborate embroidery and fantastic flourishes of gold thread, appeared the letter A.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Red
  • Gold

• All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see little except violence and fear. In those early years, I somehow came to understand I would have to draw from within myself whatever emotional resources I needed to go wherever I was headed. As a result, for years, I became a boy who lived almost totally within himself.

  

  Burgess Meredith
  • Thinking
  • Emotional
  • Eye

• I told myself that in the country of my birth, from which I was disengaged in an increasingly irreversible way, there undoubtedly were many men and women like him, basically decent people who had dreamed all their lives of the economic, social, cultural, and political progress that would transform Peru into a modern, prosperous, democratic society with opportunities open to all, only to find themselves repeatedly frustrated, and, like Uncle Ataulfo, had reached old age - the very brink of death - bewildered, asking themselves why we were moving backward instead of advancing and were worse off now with more discrimination, inequality, violence, and insecurity than when they were starting out.

  

  Edith Grossman
  • Women
  • Country
  • Death

• I enjoy being active, but I look forward to the day when I can retire to the Internet.

  

  Daniel Kahneman