Daniel Kahneman Quotes
Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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I like being unconventional.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I go back and forth between indie and studio because I feel like it, not because I feel obligated to do one or the other.
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A lot of people are crazy, cruel and negative. They got a little too much time on their hands to discuss everybody else. I have a limited amount of energy to blow in a day. I'd rather read something that I like or watch a program I enjoy or ride my damn motorcycle or throw back a couple of shots of tequila with my friends.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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Unlike Etsy, which is all handmade, we print and ship the products, not the designers. We relieve the designer from having to make and ship everything, package it, and provide customer service. All the designer has to do is submit art and keep doing what they love doing.
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Real life is far more complicated than fiction.
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For some reason, I'm the guy people love to hate, which I think is weird. People who know me find that very strange, but for some reason, I am. I don't mind being that guy - I have fun with it.
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I mean the number one reframe with different people is, there is no one right answer to your life. There are lots of great yous, there's no one single best you and by the way, you never actually know about the ones you didn't get a chance to try. We're all getting partial credit on easy questions, not right, wrong on true or false, on all the big issues of life. That's the same, once you accept that, that's the nature of being a human being, then how's it going to day, it's going reasonably well, which is fabulous because that's as good as it gets.
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Economists think about what people ought to do. Psychologists watch what they actually do.
