Daniel Kahneman Quotes

We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

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• I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.

  

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• I came to acting in a very circuitous way.

  

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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

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• Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.

  

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• All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'

  

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• The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.

  

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• I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.

  

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• I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.

  

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• Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.

  

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• The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

  

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• I have the attention span of a mosquito from multitasking and all the things that have affected my poor little brain.

  

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• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

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• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

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• America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.

  

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• I think it's a loser's mentality to get happy with somebody losing.

  

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• I de-stress with my family, just at home pruning roses, cutting, working in the garden.

  

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• We don't see very far in the future, we are very focused on one idea at a time, one problem at a time, and all these are incompatible with rationality as economic theory assumes it.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
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