Daniel Amos Quotes

#1. Our hair points to the sky, the place we'd rather be....

Daniel Amos

#2. Express gratitude for what you have. This increases the possibility that eventually you will have more to express gratitude for.

Zig Ziglar

#3. Amos and I introduced the idea of a conjunction fallacy, which people commit when they judge a conjunction of two events (here, bank teller and feminist) to be more probable than one of the events (bank teller) in a direct comparison.

Daniel Kahneman

#4. In Sweden, stardom is looked upon as phony. You walk to the theater every day like everybody else.

Lena Olin

#5. A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savour of it.

W.K. Marriott

#6. While writing the article that reported these findings, Amos and I discovered that we enjoyed working together.

Daniel Kahneman

#7. history teaches us that visions come most quickly to lone obsessives.

Alex Mar

#8. Haven't you always been more than yourself? Haven't we all? We are none of us just one thing.

Rachel Hartman

#9. Isn't the initial loss that does for him, but the stupid plays he makes in an effort to deny that the loss has happened. The great economic psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky summarised the behaviour in their classic analysis of the psychology of risk:

Tim Harford

#10. Anything that disturbs your comfort factor is good for you.

Tony La Russa

#11. There is something about a voyage you are barely aware of while you are making it.

H.M. Tomlinson

#12. You realise Group Captain that this might be the most important weather forecast in history?

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#13. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#14. It's the eighties so where's our rocket packs?

Daniel Amos

#15. I grew up in baseball stadiums. It was my two brothers and baseball around me all the time. I knew nothing about film or acting or theater when I was young!

Stephanie Sigman

#16. The psychologists Daniel Kahnerman and Amos Tversky have shown when humans estimate the likelihood or frequency of an event, we make that judgment based not on how often the event has actually occurred, but on how vivid the past examples are.

Benjamin Graham

#17. Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.

Alice Hoffman

#18. Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that.

Dalai Lama

#19. I'm fascinated with worlds where there's a small population left, whether it's a movie or these TV shows that fascinate me - 'Falling Skies' or 'The Walking Dead' - they are about survival and triumphing over difficult times. I just have a thing for 'em.

Cam Gigandet

#20. Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

David Byrne