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

• I thought maybe I could become like the next Van Gogh. I bought a sunflower and painted it, and it looked like the work of a 6-year-old.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Work
  • Like
  • Thought

• 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

• I went through a soul-searching period. I went to a place that was a little bit more reflective and dark. I began to look at who I am, who I was, where I come from, what my culture is, and who I am as an African-American person in America.

  

  Usher
  • America
  • Culture
  • Dark

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

  

  Linus Torvalds

• Watchmen # 1

  

  Alan Moore

• 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

• I consider myself very lucky indeed to have had the career I have. I listen to the radio now and you can't tell artists apart.

  

  Jay Kay Jamiroquai
  • Career

• Firearms manufacturers usually find themselves playing defense.

  

  Bob Barr

• Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Quality
  • Imagination
  • Famous

• It is not good enough to do what the law says. We need to be in the forefront of these social responsibility issues.

  

  Anders Dahlvig
  • Law
  • Issues
  • Forefront

• I still think we haven't put it all together, and maybe that's good that we're still good enough to win. I told the guys, our 2000 national title team -- we won 12-7 here, and we went on to win out and play in the Orange Bowl. So a lot of things are setting up similarly.

  

  Bob Stoops
  • Together
  • Team
  • Play

• I'm tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!

  

  Curly Howard
  • Trying
  • Think
  • Happens

• Whether in peaceful trade or warlike attack, the sea unites more than it divides. Even if it were possible to treat England, or the British Isles, as a single, homogenous, united nation, it would still be impossible to write its naval history without reference to the histories of the other nations, near and far, with which the sea has connected it.

  

  Nicholas Rodger
  • Impossible
  • Nations
  • Peaceful

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

  

  Daniel Kahneman