Daniel Kahneman Quotes

It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

Daniel Kahneman

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• Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.

  

  Zhang Ziyi
  • Up
  • She
  • Film

• I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.

  

  Barry McGee
  • School
  • Art
  • Kids

• I believe in God, but I don't know what it is - if it's a he, she, a he-she, or anything. Who knows what it is. All I know is that I feel like there's something else there.

  

  Sam Smith
  • God
  • Believe

• While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.

  

  Warren Littlefield
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Through

• Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.

  

  Laura Osnes
  • Dream
  • Years
  • Old

• The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

  

  Malcolm X
  • God
  • Black
  • Government

• I'm just drawing it now. It's totally revolting. I'm sure you'll love it.

  

  Eddie Campbell
  • Drawing
  • Now
  • Sure

• What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

  

  Cab Calloway
  • Love
  • Violence
  • Opera

• The alleged power to charm down insanity, or ferocity in beasts, is a power behind the eye.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Power
  • Insanity

• Sexuality is an expression of our spirituality. Sex makes you get real.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Real
  • Sex

• In the last couple of years I've been doing this sort of thing constantly, often repeating myself, becoming an avoidable Doomsday bore. But anything of importance - like a garden, a human relationship, a child, a religious faith, even the most convinced brand of atheism has to be worked on constantly if it is to survive.

  

  Patrick White
  • Faith
  • Relationship
  • Religious

• The first kind of evil is that which is caused to man by the circumstance that he is subject to genesis and destruction, or that he possesses a body.

  

  Maimonides
  • Evil

• From Cesario

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.

  

  Aga Khan IV
  • World
  • Hope
  • Fear

• I hear the sound of gunfire at the prison gate, Are the liberators here?Do I hope or do I fear?For my father and my brother, it’s too late but I must help my mother stand up straight.Are we the last ones left alive?Are we the only human beings to survive? - Red Sector A (1984)

  

  Neil Peart Rush
  • Up
  • Help
  • Mother

• I don’t see myself as a dissident artist. I see them as a dissident government!

  

  Ai Weiwei

• In response I am sending you some pictures which I painted in Paris out of homesickness for Russia. They are not very typical of me; I have selected the most modest ones for the Russian exhibition.

  

  Marc Chagall
  • Paris

• The air is bright with hues of light And rich with laughter and with singing: Young hearts beat high in ecstasy, And banners wave, and bells are ringing: But silence falls with fading day, And there's an end to mirth and play. Ah, well-a-day!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • High
  • Light
  • Singing

• The sunset glow of self-possession.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Sunset
  • Possession
  • Glow

• Ethernet always wins.

  

  Andy Bechtolsheim
  • Wins
  • Ethernet

• I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • Technology

• Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord.

  

  Plutarch
  • Music
  • Harmony
  • Discord

• Do I personally believe in a personal God? No.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • God
  • Believe
  • Personal

• It doesn't take many observations to think you've spotted a trend, and it's probably not a trend at all.

  

  Daniel Kahneman