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Daniel Kahneman Quotes

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

Daniel Kahneman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: psychologist
Nationality: israeli
Birth: March 5, 1934

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Time World Illusion Why Understand

If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be.

John Heywood

Experience Happy Grow Remember You

It strikes me that these days, clubs don't even want players who can truly play any more; they just want athletes, quick guys who don't have a football brain, can just run and run; some of them, Jesus. I can never imagine acting like that.

Robbie Fowler

Football Me Brain Acting I Can Play

Part of my success with urban bachata is reinventing yourself as an artist and continuing to give people different kind of fusions, mixing up the elements and concepts without changing the beat.

Romeo Santos

Success Yourself People Artist Kind

I don't want to take a company public and not have it do extremely well and fail the public shareholder.

Romesh Wadhwani

Want Company Fail Take Well Public

If I don't ask for something, I'm not going to get it.

Ruchi Sanghvi

Ask Something Going Get

Every sense has the power to transport us through time, but it's taste I find the most mysterious, and writing about it often results in tortured metaphors.

Rumaan Alam

Power Time Writing Find Results Us

What I learned about singing in the church has gone into what I do now.

Lizz Wright

Singing Church Now Gone Learned

We had bills to pay. My dad wasn't working, and it was tough for my mom. People were always raising the rent, so I had to work, too. Everybody in the house worked to pay the rent.

Jason Pierre-Paul

Work People Mom Tough House Rent

I wear a St. Christopher medal. On the back it says: 'Good luck, good luck, good luck - Mama.'

Dinah Manoff

Good Luck Good Luck Back Mama Wear

My parent's divorce and hard times at school, all those things combined to mold me, to make me grow up quicker. And it gave me the drive to pursue my dreams that I wouldn't necessarily have had otherwise.

Christina Aguilera

Dreams School Me Drive Parent Grow

I like what I'm doing. If I didn't like what I was doing, I'd be doing something else.

Bobby Kotick

Doing Something Like Else

Being a chef isn't the ideal career to intersect with parenting, but I try to be in my kids' lives as much as possible.

Wylie Dufresne

Parenting Chef Career Possible Try