Dan Ariely Quotes

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Soul
  • Snow
  • Victim

• Unless you're Gisele, you wake up some days and feel ugly. When that happens, I accept that I'm not perfect and it's OK; I can start over again tomorrow.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Perfect
  • Start

• Most people are really dedicated to doing good things.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Good
  • Good Things

• The actresses I've known support each other very much. If you have a level of confidence in what you're doing, then you don't feel threatened. We all have different things to offer.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Different
  • Support
  • Confidence

• If you're changing the world, you're working on important things. You're excited to get up in the morning.

  

  Larry Page
  • Up
  • World
  • Important

• I created something that became a phenomenon without becoming a prisoner to it.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Something
  • Without
  • Becoming

• Eighty per cent of my output is 'Mallory clowns on the Western canon,' and I'm happy to be that person.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Happy
  • Person
  • Eighty

• Moisturizing every night is important. When you're 50 or 60, it's going to show if you don't take care of it. You have to prepare when you're young, so you still have that healthy, glowing skin when you're 60 or 70.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Important
  • Night
  • Care

• I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Hate
  • Husband

• I had one drama teacher who was amazing, Ms. Perkins. She really tried to inspire me and get me going.

  

  Carlos Pena, Jr.
  • Amazing
  • Teacher
  • Drama

• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • America
  • Night
  • Car

• What had disappointed me at the time of the last tour, was to go on a worldwide tour, we were at some incredible places and we couldn't enjoy it, hadn't the time.

  

  Ed O'Brien Radiohead
  • Time
  • Enjoy
  • Disappointed

• When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • World
  • Women
  • War

• The Melvins are grunge.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Grunge

• The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Art
  • History
  • Words

• There is no better way to bring people together than with desserts.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Together
  • Better

• American music culture is black culture.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Music
  • American
  • Black

• Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Angels
  • Illness
  • Presence

• Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Think
  • Language
  • Magic

• We are all born naked into this world, but each of us is fully clothed in potential.

  

  Emmitt Smith
  • World

• But I, when I undress me Each night, upon my knees Will ask the Lord to bless me With apple-pie and cheese.

  

  Eugene Field
  • Night
  • Lord
  • Bless

• William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• You get into your wellie boots and your Range Rover and, walking around with six inches of mud on your shoes, you get to forget about that more polished lifestyle.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Walking
  • Shoes

• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  

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