Amos Tversky Quotes
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”Amos Tversky
Quotes to Explore
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
Salman Rushdie -
They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
Jackie Cooper -
Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld -
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
It's not about where you were born or where you come from that makes you a good scientist. What you need are good teachers, co-students, facilities.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan -
I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
Oliver North -
To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
Abu Bakr -
I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
Jack Lemmon -
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
Randy Pausch -
Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
Samuel Johnson -
Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
W. Clement Stone
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It had occurred to Rimford, at about the time he approached fifty, that the chief drawback in contemplating the enormous gulfs of time and space that constitute the bricks and mortar of the cosmologist is that one acquires a dismaying perception of the handful of years allotted a human being.
Jack McDevitt -
Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight altruism? These are only consequences, effects, not causes. I am out after the real cause, the real root of evil on earth - the irrational.
Ayn Rand -
White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
James A. Forbes -
Let me say that I've never thought to conduct because the conductor has to think to the music before the orchestra. And the orchestra comes later. For me, it's terrible.
Andrea Bocelli -
I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
Daniel Handler -
I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.
Lauren Ambrose
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The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each citizen walked upon the high wire of this, the real world. I longed not merely to travel through it, but to live in such a city.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
I had a strong desire to write and some free time.
Francoise Sagan -
I realized up there that our planet is not infinite. It's fragile. That may not be obvious to a lot of folks, and it's tough that people are fighting each other here on Earth instead of trying to get together and live on this planet. We look pretty vulnerable in the darkness of space.
Alan Shepard -
We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.
Mary Pipher -
“When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.”
Amos Tversky