Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes

I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

Gerd Gigerenzer

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• If it weren't for the Internet, WWE probably wouldn't even know my name. If I had to rely on 'Pro Wrestling Illustrated' to get my name out there, it would have been a much more difficult road.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Road
  • Internet
  • Name

• I can get moody sometimes when I wake up after a nap - I'm like a four-year-old.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Sometimes
  • Wake Up

• I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Live
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• People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • People
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• Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Should
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• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
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• I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.

  

  Beck
  • Write
  • Just
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• I think what you call 'metropolitan America' - as in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles - I think there's more awareness of the atypical, while in more traditional Britain, there's the kitchen-sink dramas and thrillers. It's more formulaic.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • America
  • Think
  • New York

• I believe that the will of the people is resolved by a strong leadership. Even in a democratic society, events depend on a strong leadership with a strong power of persuasion, and not on the opinion of the masses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Believe
  • Power

• Once you've built the big machinery of political power, remember you won't always be the one to run it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Power
  • Remember
  • Political

• Of all presidential perks, the pardon power has a special significance. It is just the kind of authority that would attract the special attention of someone obsessed with himself and his own ability to influence events.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • Power
  • Attention
  • Influence

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• When I was young, I was rather attractive, and I thought that I would be a leading lady. I always thought of myself as a dramatic actress, but of course the opportunities for blacks weren't there at the time.

  

  Maidie Norman
  • Time
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Every time a child's promise is cut short by their legal status, our country wastes precious resources and loses talent we need.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Time
  • Country
  • Child

• My appetite for public policy and changing it, and not only being a part of the conversation, but affecting it in a positive way, never diminished after 10 years in Congress.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Positive
  • Conversation

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• Deportation isn't something that is suddenly new.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • New
  • Something
  • Deportation

• Collecting is my passion.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Passion
  • Collecting

• I talked to General Downer about some of the funding about the National Guard and some of the civil defense workers, the firefighters, the police officers, and the way that FEMA is making them spend that money. We have got a problem there.

  

  Lynn Westmoreland
  • Money
  • Police

• You can't do television shows caring whether or not the network picks you up. You can only do them enjoying the work, because if you're always on pins and needles about whether you'll be picked up, you'll lose your mind. I learned that the hard way.

  

  Jon Cryer
  • Up
  • Work
  • Mind

• It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to experience, in addition to their trust, also their generosity in pardoning his weaknesses.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • People
  • Important
  • Experience

• Certain emotions just take you to the notes - being furious, heroic, sad, erotic, when rain comes.

  

  Jeff Buckley
  • Sad
  • Rain

• The relationships that I've built there, and the people that I've come across, I met some of my best friends in life at the University of Texas.

  

  Mohamed Bamba
  • People
  • Relationships
  • Built

• I focus on the most important form of innumeracy in everyday life, statistical innumeracy--that is, the inability to reason about uncertainties and risk.

  

  Gerd Gigerenzer
  • Important
  • Focus
  • Everyday