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.
Quotes to Explore
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don't. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I'm out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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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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The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy.
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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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I find the past so fascinating. Photographs are strange, almost surreal, almost here yet gone. I slip into thinking what the past must have been like and I enjoy creating that ambience and atmosphere - 1730 to around 1870 is the most interesting period.
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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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I'd like to think a baseball picture is somewhere in my future.
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Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
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Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go control, when the work takes off on its own and flies, farther than they ever planned or imagined, to places they didn't know they knew.
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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.
