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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You, as an entrepreneur, must make sure the postmoney valuation is a number you can obtain. You don't want too high of a valuation.
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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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Everyone thrives most in his or her own unique environment.
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Dance ... is life, or becomes it, in a way that other arts cannot attain. It is not in stone, or words or tones, but in our muscles. It is a formulation of their movements.
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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When my back's to the wall, I want to fight.
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The goal of this presentation is to impress, rather than inform.
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Nothing in life is quite as important as you think it is while you're thinking about it.
