Daniel Kahneman Quotes
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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You can have the greatest player in terms of mastering an instrument and you could be yawning your head off when you hear them. So, it's not what you do, but the way you're doing it and in the end that's all that we have.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
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Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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What we discovered, counter-intuitively, is that when you start killing a cancer cell, one of the things it does in order to survive is to spread even further. It causes itself to form new blood vessels. We've termed this 'reactionary angiogenesis.'
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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My passion was reading newspapers - and I became curious, in particular, about Islam and the Arab world.
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The environmental crisis is all a result of rushing.
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I don't know what keeps me going. Sometimes I wonder... I think it's just pure perseverance and wanting to succeed and having that burning desire to always have success.
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My job as a performer is to make sure that whatever happens in a performance lives in somebody else, that it's memorable... If you forget tomorrow what you heard yesterday, there's really not much point in you having been there - or me, for that matter.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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There shall always be much silence in a man's conduct. He shall speak only about a matter concerned with wisdom or matters that are necessary to keep his body alive.
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I am to talk about Apologetics. Apologetics means of course Defence. The first question is - what do you propose to defend? Christianity, of course...
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I had two primary cancers, which was pretty unusual. And when I got the second one, people told me such terrible bad-news stories, they instigated fears that weren't there in the first place. I do remember with such gratitude one doctor saying to me, 'Two primaries? That's nothing. I've seen a patient with six.'
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Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training.
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Don't keep a man guessing too long - he's sure to find the answer somewhere else.
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I have a ton of guy friends who talk to me about their bodies, too. But boys are often left out of the body positivity conversation.
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I am not sure if India is the right place to promote such music. I don't think there are still enough people who listen to English songs.
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Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
