Daniel Kahneman Quotes
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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Racism is always there underneath, but usually it is exploited in these times of economic crisis, and it's hard to find out when one slides into another.
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There is nothing, really, that I wouldn't write about, and I do write about a lot of grim things.
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The Chinese are really good at diplomacy - and even at making their interlocutors feel very uncomfortable.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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We need to focus on building up our own nation and creating jobs here at home.
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There's always been something a little pathetic for me at the work parties I've attended, especially thinking back to the restaurants I worked in. I remember a Christmas party in which we all got free T-shirts with the restaurant on the front and our names on the back.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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Eventually, before I die, I hope to have written about every part I've played.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself.
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I am resolved to grow fat, and look young till forty.
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Executions, far from being useful examples to the survivors, have, I am persuaded, a quite contrary effect, by hardening the heart they ought to terrify. Besides, the fear of an ignominious death, I believe, never deterred anyone from the commission of a crime, because in committing it the mind is roused to activity about present circumstances.
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I believe that a lot of our striving after the symbols and levers of success is due to a basic insecurity, a need to prove ourselves. That done, grown up at last, we are free to stop pretending.
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As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
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We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.
