Daniel Kahneman Quotes
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
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Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
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I feel comfortable any position I play. It doesn't matter.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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My mum never told me that I was beautiful when I was a kid – and I didn't read magazines or watch MTV, so I had no real consciousness about it all.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
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My parents split up when I was 3 years old, and I lived with my mother.
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I liked math - that was my favorite subject - and I was very interested in astronomy and in physical science.
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Memories are like stones, time and distance erode them like acid.
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It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
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I don't like concrete jungles.
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Our modern religious horizon and our conception of the character of a religious leader and teacher are so different that it is not easy to understand men who saw the province of religion chiefly in the broad reaches of civic affairs and international relations.
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Always before in moments of crisis I called on that power we call God to help me through. This time, having lost faith in others and my faith in myself, I had lost my hope in God too. Now that hope returned. I really believed that He hadn't wanted me to die.
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Bread that must be sliced with an ax is bread that is too nourishing.
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P. 25-26.
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we expect definitions to tell us not only what is, but what to do about it; to show us how the world fits together and how its different parts connect and work. ... A label is the first step toward action.
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A dancer's life is all about repetition.
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It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family.
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The study of history, it seems to me, leads to the conviction that all important events tend toward the same end - the civilization of mankind.
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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
