Daniel Kahneman Quotes

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

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• Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

  

  Haniel Long
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• I was reading scripts, doing coverage, for CAA. Reading hundreds and hundreds of scripts across the board, from blind submissions to 'Brokeback Mountain'. It was not always a pleasant task but something, in hindsight, I'm glad I did.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • Reading
  • Doing
  • Mountain

• I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Reading

• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

  A. J. Langer
  • Myself
  • Suffering
  • Look

• It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Time
  • Man
  • Dying

• With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

  

  Daniel Ek
  • People
  • Friends
  • Try

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Children
  • Age
  • Thought

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Religion
  • Islam

• I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Me

• Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Power
  • Poor

• God only knows what else is on the web about me.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • God
  • Me
  • Only

• The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • American
  • Security

• Put your energy into building what is creative, valuable and empowering. And you won't have to constantly fight against what is destructive and draining.

  

  Ralph Marston
  • Energy
  • Fight
  • Creative

• You do have to continue, as you grow as a human, checking in and going, 'Is this what I want? Am I giving away things that I don't want? Who am I and what do I want to keep doing?'

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Want
  • Giving
  • Grow

• Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.

  

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
  • World
  • Ability
  • Take

• The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Money
  • Business
  • Shoes

• The more transparent you are about, you know, the not so happy times, or the happy times, or the things that you're embarrassed or ashamed of or proud of, it's all in Kicker, and all in my music. I'm just inspired by life in general and what it's bringing to me.

  

  Zella Day
  • Life
  • Music
  • Happy

• We must take our troubles to the Lord, but we must do more than that, we must leave them there.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Lord
  • Troubles

• When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Bad
  • Culture

• Playing football and presenting TV are totally different things, but there are similarities: it's exciting, it can go well, it can go badly... the difference is when presenting goes badly, it doesn't really affect anyone's life, whereas when you have a bad day on the pitch, it affects people's moods for a whole week.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • People
  • Life
  • Different

• The first priority of the Republican majority is the security of Americans.

  

  Kevin McCarthy
  • Priority

• The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Bad
  • Priority