Daniel Kahneman Quotes
One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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The world needs some help.
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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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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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I realized after writing songs for years how important it is. Whether it provides a living for me or not, that creative outlet is something I need.
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I'm really familiar with what Cardboard's doing; it's not a novel concept. Cardboard is in many ways a direct ripoff of FOV2GO, a project I helped work on when I was at ICT, and it was fairly well known in the academic VR community.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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Being funny with a funny voice is more my comfort zone, a broader character that I try to humanize, a kind of silly or wacky persona that I try to fill in.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Women just love to shop.
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Producing should be a creative responsibility.
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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.
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I was at Second City L.A., going through the conservatory, and I graduated in 2004 and I got 'SNL' in 2005.
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That's what New York is like - you can't have real art happen in an institution because rich people can make the world stop. The stuff on the street is a lot more interesting.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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It's very special that the Olympics is in London. As a first Olympic experience, it's going to be pretty incredible.
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On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. 'How old is this ruin?' someone asked a guide. 'Forty-two years,' said Lange.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
