Daniel Kahneman Quotes
If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
Quotes to Explore
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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When you look at the light bulb above you, you remember Thomas Alva Edison. When the telephone bell rings, you remember Alexander Graham Bell. Marie Curie was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize. When you see the blue sky, you think of Sir C.V. Raman.
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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It's the persona that makes you a leading actor. A leading actor has something extra that's fun to watch. But it isn't usually about acting.
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It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.
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I don't ever want to stop making country, and I don't want to stop making electronic music, either.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Engagement means that in the future there will be a lot more ways for our audience to interact with Univision content.
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People should have literary and cultural taste and should not bomb hotels.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Men create the gods in their own image.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.
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The main thing that you have to remember on this journey is, just be nice to everyone and always smile.
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In anger-management training, they teach you never to hit a person - hit an object. That's what they teach you.
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We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are.
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There's nothing like rejection to make you do an inventory of yourself.
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I think a failed state is the responsibility of the people who have made that state fail, and those are generally the people of that country.
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Runners, by nature, are intentional people and normally pretty light on our feet.
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression of a thing sets up your subsequent beliefs. If the company looks inept to you, you may assume everything else they do is inept.
