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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All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
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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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The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal in domestic affairs, specifically in the matter of revolution.
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If we had everything we wanted and needed without asking of Heavenly Father, we would lose sight of the hand of God in our lives.
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I was so shy, I couldn't stand up in front of people and speak. Now I'm in the next big three Bollywood movies.
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My advice to young people wanting to make music and to be in this industry is to really spend your time making music. Make so much music you have no friends. Make music. Figure out what it is you love, and... because if you're making cool art, then everything else will fall into line.
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Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal.
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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.