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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I have no drawing talent whatsoever. I cannot do it.
Lizzy Caplan -
No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.
Ernest Hemingway -
I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
Gail Carson Levine -
I'm a Raider. Die hard Raider.
Art Shell -
A person who is without fear cannot be controlled.
Cheri Huber -
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