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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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've never been strong with my time-management skills.
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If left unchecked, global change will create violent conflict, torrential storms, shrinking coastlines, and irreversible catastrophe.
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Fortunately, no country was ever more suited for anarchist agitation than present-day America.
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People pretend to be nice; people pretend to be smooth and polite and everything, but this is only an appearance because the way we're built as human beings is only in paradox and contradictions.
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When we started, there was lots of formalwear made with quality fabrics, but Loro Piana's innovation was to use these in casualwear, too.
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Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.
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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .
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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.
