L. Jon Wertheim Quotes
Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains
Quotes to Explore
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
Kate Fleetwood
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable
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I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.
Zinedine Zidane
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I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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As a competitor, I want to continue to keep turning the chapters and keep challenging myself.
Abby Wambach
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I love to walk around New York. Honestly, that's like the best thing, to walk over to Park Slope and go visit my friend Betty and take her dog out in the park or go walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. I really dig being outside and getting to see everybody in the street.
Zoe Kazan
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No one politician should be allowed to judge the guilt, to charge an individual, to judge the guilt of an individual and to execute an individual.
Rand Paul
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He, however, who begins with Metaphysics, will not only become confused in matters of religion, but will fall into complete infidelity.
Maimonides
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I think the hardest thing I went through in the UFC was my first loss. It was terrible. It was traumatizing. But it's just going back and rebuilding and getting better.
Paige VanZant
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Factories not what they used to be - they're all extremely high-tech.
Hanna Rosin
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There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I can't be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.
Pamela Stephenson
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
Iman
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Sometimes people talk about music, whether blogs or magazines, in a strange way where it doesn't seem like they're actually listening to it.
Victoria Legrand Beach House
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One of the most important things that teachers teach students is you, you can work harder. You are mentally tougher than you think.
Taylor Mali
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
Ida B. Wells
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Cal Thomas
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All of us profit from being corrected - if we're corrected in a positive way.
Sam Walton
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I had a terrible job letting me do anything that wasn't comedy.
Val Guest
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I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
Alison Sweeney
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I love writing music for film and TV, but putting it into a video game is twice as fun because it needs to be repeatable and joyous.
Kristian Bush Sugarland
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Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.
Jon Secada
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Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.
John Henry Newman
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The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.
Peter Ackroyd
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Time and again, we let the fear of loss overpower rational decision-making and often make ourselves worse off just to avoid a potential loss. Psychologists call this loss aversion, and it means we often tend to prefer avoiding losses at the expense of acquiring gains
L. Jon Wertheim