Gerd Gigerenzer Quotes
Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
Quotes to Explore
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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I watch my films with my mum and other family members, you know. I also know there are thousands of women who watch my films. I don't want to set wrong examples.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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I've been in a room in Silicon Valley where on the wall they have 160 industries they think blockchain can disrupt. We picked six of them to focus on.
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The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
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When you are rich, people try to take advantage of you.
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I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.
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It might have been offset for us if the revenue from our own oil and natural gas that was just developing had been available to the Labor Government, but the oil revenues were just coming in when Labor fell in '79.
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I would hate to be on a plane every day.
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Over the long term, it is more profitable to do the right thing for the environment than to pollute it.
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Governor Palin leans far closer to 'spokesperson' than representative of the people.
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I went through life big-bang-banda-boom-bada-boom.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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I believe that when you provide information to people, they become less fearful and they will engage more in their democracy if they are empowered with information.
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Cognition requires going beyond the information given, to make bets and therefore to risk errors.
