Daniel Kahneman Quotes
People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Dance should mean something to you.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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No man may make another free.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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War used to be something you could stand on the nearby hill and watch. Now we have total war; everybody's in it. We have total economics as well. Everything affects everybody. The Malaysian currency shakes, and people around the world are seriously affected.
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I have made a public statement about me and Ralph by being seen with him. I don't need to make any other. You can live the way you want.
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Brands who come to China, often they just care about price - so they actually drive the suppliers to cut corners on environmental standards to win a contract.
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I really learned it all from mothers.
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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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Tolstoy was an advocate of non-resistance only because he was protected from people’s impudence by his innumerable friends. One man can stand for non-resistance, because those who stand for resistance will protect him. You will not be able to do without resistance advocates.
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Neglecting passion blocks creative flow. When you're passionate, you're energized. Likewise, when you lack passion, your energy is low and unproductive. Energy is everything when it comes to being successful.
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I dropped out of school after my tenth standard. But both my elder brother and younger brother are highly educated.
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People's mood is really determined primarily by their genetic make-up and personality, and in the second place by their immediate context, and only in the third and fourth place by worries and concerns and other things like that.
