Daniel Kahneman Quotes
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.Daniel Kahneman
Quotes to Explore
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
Randolph Bourne -
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war, and for that reason I volunteered.
Otto Dix -
I wrote seven Myron Bolitar novels in a row, and I never want to write a Myron book where he just solves a crime. Every one of them I want to be personal, and I want him to grow and change. The problem with that is, it makes the series limited, you can't write a series where a guy is always going through some kind of crisis.
Harlan Coben -
When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.
E. Stanley Jones -
I do not believe in any legacy. The past is dead and gone.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
Idris Elba
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For me, family has always come first.
Candace Parker -
If you're out for two years, and you beat one guy with a full-time job, without disrespect, but we're talking about fighting for a world title. You can't just beat a guy that went there to cover some guy that got injured, and then this guy, after two and a half years, gets a title shot.
Rafael dos Anjos -
I wanted to get a taste of what it would feel like to be a mum. I've always had a strong maternal instinct and ideally I would love one of my own.
Samantha Fox -
I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute -
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
Quico Canseco -
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
Pat Metheny -
Once your body is in workout-mode, a few days off won't hurt. Muscle memory is magical. If you work out consistently, you can afford to miss a few sessions and your body will gladly pick up where you left off.
Rachel Nichols -
I never left a team in worse shape than I got it. Not once.
Larry Brown -
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom -
I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
Halima Aden -
I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
Dambisa Moyo
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If you choose the wrong questions and you proceed, you still get a result, but it's not interesting.
Bruce Nauman -
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.
Chogyam Trungpa -
It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time.
Paul Erdos -
Anger without power is folly.
Florence Scovel Shinn -
We have associations to things. We have, you know, we have associations to tables and to - and to dogs and to cats and to Harvard professors, and that's the way the mind works. It's an association machine.
Daniel Kahneman