Daniel Kahneman Quotes
Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
Quotes to Explore
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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Crime stories are our version of sitting round a camp fire and telling tales. We enjoy being scared under safe circumstances. That's why there's no tradition of crime writing in countries that have wars.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I was never an assimilationist. I always thought gays had some special mission.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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I prayed every day of my life, and that was instilled in me as a kid, and as I've gotten older, that's just matured in me.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I consider everybody who takes themselves seriously to be a little bit off. And Silicon Valley seems to be the most effusive about how important their contributions are to society.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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TV's been good to me.
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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In the end, the market will decide which is the better performer: dirty coal-fired power or clean wind and solar. Market-based competition. That doesn't sound like communism to me.
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Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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It would be childish to think that the Stalin bureaucracy can be removed by means of a Party or Soviet Congress. Normal, constitutional means are no longer available for the removal of the ruling clique ... They can be compelled to hand over power to the Proletarian vanguard only by FORCE.
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Of which beauty will you speak? There are many: there are a thousand: there is one for every look, for every spirit, adapted to each taste, to each particular constitution.
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
