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.”
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.
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They thought in terms of: whatever you had that started you at the box office, this was it.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
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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.
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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.
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I'm still in touch with a lot people who continue to serve our country well.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I would rather play Hamlet with no rehearsal than TV golf.
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Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom.
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Let observation with extensive viewSurvey mankind, from China to Peru.
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Give a smile to everyone you meet (smile with your eyes) - and you’ll smile and receive smiles...
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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.
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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.
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White supremacy is not just a social arrangement: it is a race-based faith.
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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.
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I listen to Morricone, the famed Italian film composer, while I'm working.
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I wanted to be on stage. That was kind of my plan as an actress in the beginning.
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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
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Somehow politicians have become convinced that negative campaigning pays off in elections.
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Finance is a slave's word.
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I went through my whole life wanting to feel I belonged. I was very, very lonely, so I would marry people that I wasn't really in love with, and who weren't right for me, because I hoped they would be.
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I think we live in an entertainment world where performers like to flaunt how great they are. The Conchords don't do that. Even when they stumble onstage, people like it.
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“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.”
