Daniel Kahneman Quotes
The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
Quotes to Explore
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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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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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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 think the art world heightens the intensity of desires for inclusion, and the humiliations of exclusion, which is why it's a great place to circulate when you are in the lucky position, as I am, of not wanting or needing anything from anyone.
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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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As an athlete, you have to become quite selfish with your time and your body and your training.
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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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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I think we will always have the impulse towards visual poetry with us, and I wouldn't agree with Bly that it's a bad thing. It depends on the ability of the individual poet to do it well, and to make a shape which is interesting enough to hold your attention.
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Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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The atheist market is a very overlooked and powerful market, it turns out.
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The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.
