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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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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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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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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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 are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
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Sometimes it is hard to sing and dance at the same time, but I would rather be off and be real and genuine about it to my fans.
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I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
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You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
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Hindsight bias makes surprises vanish.
