Daniel Kahneman Quotes
The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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Sometimes you read pilots and, understandably, they're doing such a frantic tap dance for approval. I get why - it's such an incredibly competitive market.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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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.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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God only knows what else is on the web about me.
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The American people demand results, not rhetoric, especially when it comes to national security issues.
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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.
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Having my first number one single and being able to travel to places I've never been before has been amazing. The tour was also fantastic. There are so many things which I've experienced this year which I never even dreamed of.
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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?'
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Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
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One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
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Atomic war is bad but you know what’s even worse? Having had enough atomic wars that you can rank them in terms of horribleness.
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Normally, we are happy to find a fragment of jaw, a few isolated teeth, a bit of an arm, a bit of a skull. But to find associated body parts is extremely rare.
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The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.
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The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.
