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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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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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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For me, what I really want to come out of it is to show people that I can hold together a movie, be the number one character and play someone who is twenty or twenty-one.
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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 do not believe the American people are going to confuse hatred for passion.
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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 believe in peace-building in any kind of platform, be it a political platform like Parliament or negotiations like peace-building negotiations.
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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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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.
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If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?
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Sometimes I leave an encounter or a conversation hoping that I didn't come off as above my raisin' - hoping that I didn't make somebody feel bad for not having as much as we're fortunate to have.
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I burned down my dorm room freshman year. I was that kid. When you live in small quarters with two guys, the smell in the room starts to take over a little bit. So we decided we wanted our room to smell like fresh baked cookies. So we order a cookie-dough-scented candle off eBay, and then we accidentally burn our room down with that candle.
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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.”
