Daniel Kahneman Quotes

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

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• There is an expression now that is commonly used about these so-called internal conflicts which are not really internal, because they have connections to the outside world.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
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• For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.

  

  Samantha Power
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• Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.

  

  Madeleine Albright
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• Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.

  

  Rachel Brosnahan
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• We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
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• I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'

  

  Damien Hirst
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• I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.

  

  Ja Rule
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• I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.

  

  Nathalie Emmanuel
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• Everyone needs help when they try something new.

  

  Zoe Sugg
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• This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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• Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.

  

  Park Chan-wook
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• Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.

  

  Taufik Hidayat
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• I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I'm a big fan of Justin Timberlake and Bruno Mars – that's my next level. You've got to dream. People have always tried to shoot me down for wanting to be a big worldwide star. But why not? You have to broaden your horizons and put yourself out there.

  

  Olly Murs
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• If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
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• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
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• In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

  

  Alice Munro
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• I make clothes people can wear; I don't make art.

  

  Dries van Noten
  • People
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• It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.

  

  Zoë Heller
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• There are a lot of people that get interested in something, and they hear about it, and they read about it, and then they watch it happen, and that's why I had quite an interest in the lottery because you'd interest a lot of people, and then just a few would win a chance to do something.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
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• Those who think to reach God by running away from the world, when and where do they expect to meet him? We are reaching him here in this very spot, now at this very moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
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